Source level upgrade from 4.9 to CURRENT..
illoai at gmail.com
illoai at gmail.com
Tue Sep 15 18:36:35 UTC 2009
2009/9/15 Rom Albuquerque <a_romolo at hotmail.com>:
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> Hi folks. Need help in doing the following, but first want to check
> and see if it is feasible with the latest release, or if I'm just going to
> be spinning my wheels on this one.
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> The Objective.
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> I have a FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE system which I want to upgrade to 7.X
> from the source level. Had a bunch of problems installing 7.1-RELEASE from
> the CD distribution I got from freebsdmall.com. Several problems that
> could not mount the CD at the time of installation causing sysinstall
> to halt. So, 4.9 is installed and working, is there a source level
> backward compatibility issue between 7.x and anything older than 6.0 ?
> In other words, upgrading from the sources with such an old
> distribution is a doable task ?
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UFS1 v. UFS2, which isn't a big deal.
Also, is your root partition large enough? IIRC 4.x defaulted
to about 128M for /, which is far too small for 7.x and on.
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