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On Jan 7, 2011, at 7:07 AM, Jerry McAllister <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 03:05:14PM +0100, Erik Trulsson wrote: > >> 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. > > The thing to do is create the UFS2 new system and use it to read > the stuff you need from the old UFS1 system/disk. Then just use > the new disk. > Maybe I'm just imagining things, but I somehow recall that some guru had posted a technique for converting UFS1 to UFS2 by way of dump/restore while booted from a live distro. Was I dreaming? -- Cheers, Devin > ////jerry > > >> -- >> <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]" > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]" _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
