Upgrade v5.x to v7.0

[Vince Sabio]

** At 00:25 +0200 on 08/12/2008, Ivan Voras wrote:
>Vince Sabio wrote:
>>I am currently running FreeBSD v5.1 (yes, I am a Bad Person(tm)), 
>>and need to update it to v7.0. Questions:
>>
>>1. Can I go straight from v5.1 to v7.0? Or do I need to make a stop at v6.x?
>
>Theoretically it might be possible but definitely not recommended. 
>5.1 is very old (it's not even labeled STABLE

Neither am I -- so my FreeBSD box and I are even.

>- are you sure "FreeBSD updates" track such old releases?)

I don't think they do.

>and there might be unexpected problems.
>
>>2. I'm Unix shell literate with a reasonable level of Solaris 
>>sysadmin experience, but have no experience (yet) with FreeBSD 
>>updates.  Is there a site with step-by-step instructions for the 
>>uninitiated, to help minimize Pr(failure)?
>>
>>3. Anything else I should know?
>
>You probably don't want to do it with binary upgrades, for many 
>reasons, including unexpected problems (i.e. possibility of ending 
>up with a system so messed up nobody could help you restore it). Do 
>a source upgrade to 6.0 then to 7.0 - it's not hard. For best 
>effects, you need to also recompile all additional ports installed 
>on the server (actually, you *can* run ports compiled for 5.x on 7.x 
>but as soon as you need to upgrade one of them, you'll probably need 
>to upgrade all or most of them because of cross-dependencies).

Got it. There are sites that go through the 6.x to 7.0 upgrade, but 
I've foud nothing that explains how to get from 5. to 6.x. Any ideas 
here?

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Vince Sabio                                                  vince at vjs.org