On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 14:50:13 +0200 Remko Lodder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Brent Bailey wrote: > > > Hello, > > My company has been asked to help with the upgrade of several Freebsd > > systems that are pretty old. The customer is running a file server > > samba also running apache running FBSD 4.2, he wants to upgrade using > > cvsup & the make buildworld procedure to upgrade to 5.x. Im very > > familier with the make buildworld procedure however there have been > > significant changes between 4.2 & 5.x so is this something that can be > > done without many problems ? hello brent, though i don't know anyone who has gone this route, i imagine it is possible. the reason most people don't cvsup from 4.x to 5.x is because there is a fundamental change in the filesystem (details of which escape me now - check the release notes at freebsd.org). by simply cvsupping, you will _not_ be able to take advantage of the new filesystem. if your customer insists upon 5.x, it would probably be best to prepare a full back-up then: a) take the machine down, make a fresh install of 5.x, then load back data. b) build and configure a parallel 5.x machine, load it with the backed-up data, then find a new use for the 4.x series machine. hth. cheers, epi > > Aside from reading throught the /usr/src/UPDATING file are > > there things i should look out for being that the 2 versions are so > > differrent. > > > > personally i would recommend going to the lastest stable release > > 4.10-p2 > > > > I welcome this lists thoughts & opions on this matter > > > > thank in advance for any help :-) > > Hey Brent, > > FreeBSD 5.x has not yet been described as production release ready. > So your customer is best advised to use the 4.x branch, and indeed at > the moment that is 4.10 (and the patches afterwards ofcourse). > > However i am running FreeBSD 5.x as production server in 2 colocated > boxes without any problems. So it does not mean that it's crashing all > the time, but there might be bugs that can cause downtime for your > customer, and he should be willing to risk that problem if you want to > upgrade to 5.x. If he prefers stablitity, and little downtime you do > best to upgrade to the latest 4 release with patches. > > Since it's a very long while back that i runned 4.x (4.3 ...) i can't > remember anymore what the huge differences are, perhaps someone else can > describe that to you. > > Cheers! > > -- > Kind regards, > > Remko Lodder |[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Reporter DSINet |[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Projectleader Mostly-Harmless |[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]"
