Upgrading from FreeBSD 4.1

[Chris Kiakas]

I have to agree with the other posters. I would not attempt the upgrade. If you do, you need to go to 5, then to 6, then to 7 all the way and in some cases you would need to update the minor releases. In between all that you would have to upgrade all the packages.

Your best bet is as indicated. Setup a new system with the desired packages and works on transferring your data.

Best of luck.


Chris


> On Apr 15, 2016, at 4:09 AM, Allan Kapoma <allan.kapoma at zamnet.zm> wrote:
> 
> Hello
> 
> 
> 
> I'm running FreeBSD 4.10 and I want to upgrade the system to a later version
> of FreeBSD.
> 
> 
> 
> 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
> 
> 
> 
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