who has experience about updating freebsd from 4.11 to 5.x

[Jan Grant]

On Mon, 5 Sep 2005 jl at burghcom.com wrote:

> Quoting "liguoqiang\(126\)" <liguoqiang_0121 at 126.com>:
> 
> > Hi, all:
> > I update my freebsd ver 4.11 by cvsup src-all tree.
> > It's successfully as below:
> >     make buildworld
> >     make buildkernel
> >     make installkernel
> > But some errors appear when i make installworld:
> > 
> 
> It has been my experience that updating from one full version to another (3.x
> to
> 4.x, 4.x to 5.x) is better done by doing a clean binary install of the next
> version, then import/install software and users on the new system.
> I understand that this is not always an option, but I have had less problems
> this way than cvsup across full versions.

FWIW I've had no problems following the source upgrade instructions - 
they were very successful.

The only issue I came across was one of my own making: I used a second 
drive to install copies of /, /usr to manage upgrades (much like 
solaris' liveupdate) and wound up with a ufs2 /, which my original 
bootloader (from the 3.x days) didn't grok.

Cheers,
jan

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