Canonical 4.x to 6.x upgrade docs?

Bruce A. Mah bmah at freebsd.org
Fri Mar 9 17:30:08 UTC 2007


If memory serves me right, Artem Kuchin wrote:
> 
>> Has anyone succeeded in doing a 4.x -> 6.x upgrade from source without
>> upgrading first to 5.x as an intermediate step?
> 
> 
> 
> tried twice - did not work, but going to 5 and then to 6 was not a problem.
> But i suspect than going from older 4.x to newer 5.x (like 5.4) might not work
> and it might need another round of upgrade lile 4.x - 5.1 - 5.4 - 6.2
> I don't kwow for sure.

What's the basis for your suspicion?

5.X releases up through and including 5.4 included a migration guide
(written mostly by me) with step-by-step instructions on migrating from
4.X.  I don't recall any widespread problem reports from people when
following these directions correctly on migrating from 4.X to 5.4.  And
I'm fairly sure that a number of the FreeBSD.org machines were upgraded
using exactly this procedure (4.X to 5.4, then 5.4 to 6.X).

Bruce.

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