Upgrading from FreeBSD 4.1

[Allan Kapoma]

Hello Erich

What command(s) did you used to move from version 4 to 5.21

Regards


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-----Original Message-----
From: Erich Dollansky [mailto:erichsfreebsdlist at alogt.com] 
Sent: 16 April 2016 03:44
To: Allan Kapoma <allan.kapoma at zamnet.zm>
Cc: questions at freebsd.org; 'Nalumino Moola' <nalumino.moola at zamnet.zm>
Subject: Re: Upgrading from FreeBSD 4.1

Hi,

On Fri, 15 Apr 2016 10:09:34 +0200
"Allan Kapoma" <allan.kapoma at zamnet.zm> wrote:

> I'm running FreeBSD 4.10 and I want to upgrade the system to a later 
> version of FreeBSD.
> 
this is from 2004 and still running. I wonder if you can even update to the
latest version. I have had a notebook, I never brought to 8 as its hardware
was not supported from 8 onward.

If you really want to update, use sources to move from version to version. I
would move to 5.21 first and the 6.0, 7.0 ...

It will not be possible to compile new versions with the old compiler you
have.

The binary upgrade came later. When you have reached that version, you can
go via binary upgrades.

Of course, you can have a try and move directly to the oldest version
supporting binary upgrades. I only doubt that your old compiler will support
this.

Good luck.

Erich


>  
> 
> 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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> 224775 |
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