FreeBSD Upgrade from 5.2 to 5.4

[Andrew P.]

On 9/28/05, Jay Moore <jaymo at cromagnon.cullmail.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 September 2005 08:43 pm, Peter Clutton wrote:
> > > What's the deal? I've read the upgrade documentation, but it's just not
> > > clear
> > > to me what's going on - can someone point me to a better/more detailed
> > > source
> > > of documentation on the upgrade process (in particular wrt HD config)?
> >
> >  This might help:
> > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html
> >  No hard drive messing required. You will also need to read up on csv in
> > handbook.
>
> This is pretty old hardware - 200 MHz Pentium; I tried the makeworld route
> once before, and it took too long. I just wanted a nice, simple, binary
> upgrade... maybe that's not possible; maybe I will have to do a fresh
> install.
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If I were you, I'd try the binary update first. In the
hard drive configuration screens, leave the partiotions
untouched (press q in the partiotioning screen) and
type in the mount points in the labelling screen.

You can check out your current mount points by
typing "# mount" on your running system. Just
jot it down - and type it in later. Also make
sure the newfs toggles are off (this is probably
the default) if you don't want to reformat your
drive.

If you get stuck, you can try to install 5.4 over
5.2 without formatting your partitions. Just use
the same set of instructions. You might need
to run mergemaster after installation.

And if you don't have any important data on
the hard drive - why bother at all? Just make
a clean install.


Cheerz,
Andrew P.