Canonical 4.x to 6.x upgrade docs?

Stephen Clark Stephen.Clark at seclark.us
Fri Dec 29 06:44:49 PST 2006


Simon L. Nielsen wrote:

>On 2006.12.28 19:55:55 -0500, Charles Sprickman wrote:
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>>Is there any official doc on this?  Perhaps I'm just not finding it?  I 
>>would assume since everyone is being urged to get away from 4.x that 
>>somewhere there's a good step-by-step on how to do that.
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>http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.4R/migration-guide.html#UPGRADE
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>That is the one I used (or perhaps I used it from 5.3-RELEASE, but
>should be the same), when I recently upgraded a system 4->5->6.  The
>5->6 should be pretty much like any other FreeBSD upgrade, just follow
>the normal documented upgrade procedure and don't skip steps.  My
>upgrade actually turned out to be pretty painless and just work.
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Hi Simon,

Charles is looking for info on how to upgrade remote systems, which he 
does not have physical access
to. The document you reference does not have that info.

Steve

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