Advice sought on upgrading from 4.11-R to 5.4...

[Kevin Oberman]

> Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 00:23:18 +0200
> From: Brad Knowles <brad at stop.mail-abuse.org>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable at freebsd.org
> 
> At 11:34 PM +0200 2005-09-21, Erik Trulsson wrote:
> 
> >  And you should of course also read /usr/src/UPDATING as usual.
> 
> 	That's the current version of the file from the 5.x tree, right? 
> Is there any obvious way to see what this is without going ahead and 
> downloading all the source anyway?  Maybe there's something I'm 
> missing, but this seems to be one of the really important files that 
> is not easily available via the web interface on freebsd.org -- 
> they've got the RELEASE_NOTES and a number of others, but not this 
> one.

Check in the CVS repository:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/UPDATING?annotate=1.342.2.24&only_with_tag=RELENG_5_4

One down side of an upgrade in-place is that you don't get the larger
root partition that is now default and you don't get UFS2 file systems
on your partitions.
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman at es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634