Upgrading

[Kevin Kinsey]

Grant Peel wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have had complete success with upgrading 6.0 to 6.1rc1 and finally, 6.1 
> RELEASE.
> 
> Sorry about asking a question that I am sure has been asked once befor ....
> 
> Can I upgrade a 4.4, 4.7, 4.10, 5.2.1 boxes the same way using CVSup i.e 
> directly from one of those to 6.1R?
> 


Some of those, in fact, *most*, are a pretty big jump.  Also,
IIRC, all ports needs to be updated.

In particular, it's a big jump from 4.X to 5.X; IIRC, you need
to do some special magic from 4.11 to 5.X.  After that, I'd wanna
get to about 5.3/5.4 or so before jumping to 6.1.

Then there's the filesystem issue.  If you go from 4.X to 6.X
directly by means of 2 or more cvsup/buildworld cycles, you can't
reformat your disks and use UFS2.

Kevin Kinsey




> P.S. I keep complete backups ... 
> 

Good!

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