Re: It's time to bite the bullet and do a major upgrade from 4.11 to 6.0

2006-11-15 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 15 November 2006 02:54, Jonathan McKeown wrote: > On Tuesday 14 November 2006 18:13, Scott Schappell wrote: > > The writing is on the wall and all that stuff. I've put this off long > > enough. > > > > What needs to be done to upgrade from 4.11 to 6.x? I have an extensive > > amount o

Re: It's time to bite the bullet and do a major upgrade from 4.11 to 6.0

2006-11-14 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Tuesday 14 November 2006 18:13, Scott Schappell wrote: > The writing is on the wall and all that stuff. I've put this off long > enough. > > What needs to be done to upgrade from 4.11 to 6.x? I have an extensive > amount of ports installed and in googling and searching the list, it seems > I ne

Re: It's time to bite the bullet and do a major upgrade from 4.11 to 6.0

2006-11-14 Thread Garrett Cooper
Robert Huff wrote: Jerry McAllister writes: I believe there are also some file system improvements that you will miss if you do not rebuild the file systems at the 6.xxx level. Particularly, 4.x does not have UFS2/MAC which is the wave of the future.

Re: It's time to bite the bullet and do a major upgrade from 4.11 to 6.0

2006-11-14 Thread Robert Huff
Jerry McAllister writes: > I believe there are also some file system improvements that you > will miss if you do not rebuild the file systems at the 6.xxx > level. Particularly, 4.x does not have UFS2/MAC which is the wave of the future.

Re: It's time to bite the bullet and do a major upgrade from 4.11 to 6.0

2006-11-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
01.792.1918 x2402 | Fax: 201-792-3090 > > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott > Schappell > Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 11:14 AM > To: FreeBSD Questions > Subject: It's time to bite the bullet

Re: It's time to bite the bullet and do a major upgrade from 4.11 to 6.0

2006-11-14 Thread Garrett Cooper
EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Schappell Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 11:14 AM To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: It's time to bite the bullet and do a major upgrade from 4.11 to 6.0 The writing is on the wall and all that stuff. I've put this off long enough. W

RE: It's time to bite the bullet and do a major upgrade from 4.11 to 6.0

2006-11-14 Thread Jay Gordon
EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Schappell Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 11:14 AM To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: It's time to bite the bullet and do a major upgrade from 4.11 to 6.0 The writing is on the wall and all that stuff. I've put this off long enough. What needs to be done

It's time to bite the bullet and do a major upgrade from 4.11 to 6.0

2006-11-14 Thread Robert Huff
Scott Schappell writes: > Am I on the right track by doing source upgrades? Source upgrades are certainly possible; I'll let others address the sequence of steps. However: were this my problem, I would get a clean disk and install from scratch. Advantages: ability to a

It's time to bite the bullet and do a major upgrade from 4.11 to 6.0

2006-11-14 Thread Scott Schappell
The writing is on the wall and all that stuff. I've put this off long enough. What needs to be done to upgrade from 4.11 to 6.x? I have an extensive amount of ports installed and in googling and searching the list, it seems I need to make a jump to 5.2 then from there to 6. My thinking is the b