Upgrading from FreeBSD 4.1

Trond Endrestøl Trond.Endrestol at fagskolen.gjovik.no
Fri Apr 15 09:37:13 UTC 2016


On Fri, 15 Apr 2016 10:09+0200, Allan Kapoma wrote:

> I'm running FreeBSD 4.10 and I want to upgrade the system to a later version
> of FreeBSD. 

That system is so old. I recommend installing FreeBSD 10.3 on a spare 
system using the old system as a guide, and later transfer the data 
from old to new.

> However, whenever I run commands to update the system (# freebsd-update), or
> install portsnap, or install portmanager, or pkg commands, portsnap fetch
> extract, I'm getting the message that command not found 
> 
> The my output for uname -a is shown below
> 
> relay# uname -a
> 
> FreeBSD relay.zamnet.zm 4.10-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE #1: Fri Nov 12
> 06:54:4   
> 
> I'm asking for assistance on how I can enable the system (FreeBSD 4.10) to
> run these commands and hopefully update my system and packages on it
>  
> 
> Regards
> 
> Allan Kapoma|Head of Networks| ZAMNET Communication Systems Limited |
> 
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> 
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