On Apr 2, 2007, at 5:20 PM, Jean-Paul Natola wrote:
I do not have /usr/src/UPDATING
I have
# locate UPDATING
/usr/local/share/doc/exim/README.UPDATING
/usr/ports/UPDATING
/usr/ports/mail/dspam/files/UPDATING
/usr/ports/mail/dspam-devel/files/UPDATING
After you did a cvsup with "src-all" in the supfile there should be a
/usr/src/UPDATING file. Read it before updating, it can help you not
getting in trouble.
I just did an upgrade although that was from 6.0 to 6.2 so not
perfectly
comparable. But it workedout fi. e, I used the nex thowto:
http://mikestammer.com/dokuwiki/bsd:updateos
The howto is only fine, although I had some issues with understanding
mergemaster.
Mergemaster askes you whether to use the new file, the old file or to
merge
them. When merging them it gives a left and a right file and the
diffs of it.
You just have to select which one of them you want to keep.
Well, good luck and make sure you have a working level 0 dump at hand to
restore in case everything goes wrong.
--
Guido
www.rottnic.nl 0
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From: Derek Ragona [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 11:02 AM
To: Jean-Paul Natola; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: UPGRADing from 5.4- Sysinstall or makeworld
The difference is a binary upgrade using sysinstall booting a later
version
CD or using cvsup and a source install. Both should work fine for
your
setup. If you want to go to 6.X you should go to 5.5 first.
Read /usr/src/UPDATING in all cases.
-Derek
At 09:44 AM 4/2/2007, Jean-Paul Natola wrote:
Hi everyone,
I'm think I really need to upgrade from 5.4 as I'm having a slew
of issues
with my programs- specifically exim-sa-clamav-
My concern is that this was the only BSD install I had ever done with
assistance from a colleague from across the border- So all I have
been doing
for the past year is cvsup-ing and portupgrading- however as mentioned
earlier I'm running into issues that are consuming too much time
for me to
resolve as I am a one man IT department here.
The first thing I'd like to know is if my box can indeed handle the
upgrade
to 6.2 -
I have the following hardware-
PIII 500mhz
256 ram
8 gig hard-drive
The ONLY thing I use this box for is to filter mail that then gets
passed to
my exchange server-
Are there any gotcha's I need to lookout for before attempting this
upgrade,
since this filters my e-mail if I screw up- I will have no incoming
mail-
lest I choose to redirect my SMTP directly to my mail server- NOT A
GOOD
IDEA.
So I see there are two methods of upgrading - sysinstall or
makeworld- what
would be the optimal choice for someone with limited experience in
the BSD
world-
Thanks
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