On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 12:02:59PM +0000, Frank Shute wrote: > On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 07:45:28AM -0800, patrick wrote: > > > > I know this is a bit crazy, but is there any opinion as to whether a > > binary upgrade using an 8.1 CD would work to upgrade a system running > > 4.10? Normally I would want to do a fresh install, but it's at a > > remote client site where it's not going to be easy to do it that way, > > and I'm going to need to guide someone less experienced through the > > install/upgrade process. > > An upgrade using a CD wouldn't work as the filesystem changed from > UFS1 to UFS2 betweeen 4 and 5.
That by itself should not be a showstopper, since newer FreeBSD releases (incl. 8.1) still support UFS1 and can run perfectly fine on it. Although it is generally a good idea to use UFS2 rather than UFS1 with FreeBSD 5+ it is certainly not necessary. -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson [email protected] _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
