4.11 to RELENG_6

Doug Barton dougb at FreeBSD.org
Tue Aug 9 02:28:40 GMT 2005


Randy Bush wrote:
> any peculiarities/clues for upgrading an antique from 4.11 to
> RELENG_6 beyond the "To upgrade in-place from 5.x-stable to 
> current" in UPDATING?

Back up important data, and do a clean install of 6. At minimum, by trying 
to upgrade in place you'll not get UFS2 partitions. And unless you've bumped 
the default partition sizes since you installed 4.x, you'll probably not be 
happy with life in a 6-stable world.

hth,

Doug

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