If memory serves me right, Oliver Fromme wrote: > Björn König <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Randy Bush wrote: > > > any peculiarities/clues for upgrading an antique from 4.11 to > > > RELENG_6 beyond the "To upgrade in-place from 5.x-stable to > > > current" in UPDATING? > > > > I guess not. From the release notes of 6.0-BETA2: > > > > "Source upgrades to FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT are only supported from FreeBSD > > 5.3-RELEASE or later. Users of older systems [...] > > Unfortunately, that statement is ambiguous: FreeBSD 4.11 > (Jan. 2005) is _not_ older than 5.3 (Nov. 2004). However, > I guess that's not what the release notes really mean.
Sorry. :-( The case of someone trying to upgrade from 4.X to 6.X hadn't occurred to me when I wrote that (because, as noted, 4.X to 5.X is non-trivial). > For the mentioned update from 4.x to 6.x, I would go via > a binary upgrade, which has probably fewer pitfalls and > is finished a lot faster than a source upgrade. I'd advise that as well. Bruce.
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