Jan Pechanec wrote:
On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, Iain Dooley wrote:
Use sysinstall to do a binary upgrade, or carefully follow the directions in the handbook.
binary upgrade!!! brilliant, i didn't even know it existed. is there a section
in the handbook on it? i couldn't find one.
hi, be sure you know that 5.x uses UFS2. If you do just a binary upgrade, you keep older UFS1. It will work but generally it may not be a good idea. j.
http://sixshooter.v6.thrupoint.net/jeroen/faq.html
so if i install from binaries i should do:
newfs -U -O 2 /dev/da1s1a mount /dev/da1s1a /mnt cd /mnt dump 0buf 126 - / | restore xbf 126 -
can someone please explain what these commands are doing? will i lose data that is on the device? if i go through the make buildworld/make installworld process then do i still need to do this to update to UFS2??
what significance does this:
1.18. My /boot/loader reports "Invalid format"?
from the above article hold for me. is it likely to happen? i read through the /usr/src/UPDATING document for 5.x when i tried to install on my laptop, but still couldn't manage to upgrade from 4.10 to 5.3 without errors. i can't afford to do that on my current system because i need it for work and uni.
do i have to just back up all my data, install 5.3, format the hard drive and then reinstall all my applications? it'll take ages... _______________________________________________
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