Re: upgrading form 4.2 to 5.x

2004-07-17 Thread Kevin Oberman
> Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 17:14:22 -0400 > From: epilogue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 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

Re: upgrading form 4.2 to 5.x

2004-07-17 Thread epilogue
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

Re: upgrading form 4.2 to 5.x

2004-07-17 Thread Andrew J Caines
Conventional wisdom is that upgrading over major versions is an interesting academic exercise and an a great display of the power and flexibility of the platform, but that if you're just trying to get a working system then a clean install is the preferred method. With good separation of system, ap

Re: upgrading form 4.2 to 5.x

2004-07-17 Thread Helge Oldach
Remko Lodder: >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 proc