It's time to bite the bullet and do a major upgrade from 4.11 to 6.0

[Garrett Cooper]

Jay Gordon wrote:
> That's the way I would go about it.
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Scott
> Schappell
> Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 11:14 AM
> To: FreeBSD Questions
> Subject: It's time to bite the bullet and do a major upgrade from 4.11
> to 6.0
>
> The writing is on the wall and all that stuff. I've put this off long
> enough.
>
> What needs to be done to upgrade from 4.11 to 6.x?  I have an extensive
> amount of ports installed and in googling and searching the list, it
> seems I
> need to make a jump to 5.2 then from there to 6.
>
> My thinking is the best way to do this would be to cvsup, do the
> rebuilding
> of the world thing boot it to the 5 version then cvsup to 6.
>
> The server is continuously backed up so rolling back won't be a problem
> if I
> need to.
>
> Am I on the right track by doing source upgrades? If so, what
> intermediate
> jump(s) do I need to make to get from 4.11 to 6?
>   
    That's a major set of version jumps though, so you may want to 
consider a clean install of 6.x via binaries, then source upgrade to 6.2 
in a couple of weeks using cvsup once it's made stable; besides, 
reinstalling would be trivial if you copy down your /etc files you need 
to keep, as well as your packages / ports db (/var/db/ports), and home 
directories. Besides, if you do a clean reinstall at least you might 
claim back some space that was being used by leftover cruft from 
packages, uninstalled packages, or 'ancient' :) OS features.
-Garrett