FreeBSD 5.5 -> 6.1 for ISP purposes

[Eric Anderson]

On 12/20/06 10:59, Jan Knepper wrote:
> Thanks!
> 
> Any specific procedure you followed?
> I tried: http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/upgrade/freebsd-upgrade-5x-6x.txt
> But that does seem to have some minor problems as audit does not exist 
> in /etc/group for instance.

I don't use those instructions, and I'm not sure what those really apply 
to exactly.  I use what is recommended in /usr/src/UPDATING.

First, I copy the new GENERIC, and make my changes like I had in my old 
kernel.  I make sure I have COMPAT_FREEBSD5 in the new kernel.  Then, 
something like:
make buildworld
make kernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
mergemaster -pmake installworld
make delete-old
mergemaster -i
reboot

That's what *I* do, but that isn't the recommended path from official 
@freebsd.org people.  See /usr/src/UPDATING and read it carefully.


> 
> Eric Anderson wrote:
>> On 12/17/06 14:21, Jan Knepper wrote:
>>> Hi...
>>>
>>> Currently running FreeBSD 5.5-STABLE, but am considering running 
>>> jails with ezjail however nullfs does not seem to be stable in 5.5.
>>>
>>> Has any of you upgrade a life system 5.x to 6.1-STABLE? Any serious 
>>> gotcha's?
>>>
>>> How is 6.1-STABLE for server purposes stability wise? (Dual Opteron 
>>> machines with 2 GB of RAM and 256GB SATA drives)
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> Jan
>> 6-STABLE is very solid.  I've upgraded about 20 systems from 5.x to 
>> 6.x.  One thing I did on all of them was to go to the latest 5-STABLE 
>> code first, then hop to 6-STABLE.  I highly recommend 6-STABLE for the 
>> many many UFS/VFS bug fixes.
>>
>> Eric
>>
>>
>>


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Eric Anderson        Sr. Systems Administrator        Centaur Technology
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