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Old 7th May 2008
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Default upgrade from 5.5 to 6.3

Anyone tried this?

Ya I know it is probably noobish, but still could save me some time.
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Ages ago I updated from 5.4 to an early 6.0 beta. It went fine. Dru Lavigne has an article where she did the same:

http://www.oreillynet.com/sysadmin/b..._60_beta1.html

It should be very similar for you.
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note I am not asking how, but rather did it work for them.
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seems like the best bet will be to upgrade to 6 then upgrade again to 6.3.

Will give ago tomorrow.
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The only really supported upgrade path between major versions is: upgrade to the latest X.y release, then update to Z.0, then update to Z.a.

IOW, go from 5.x to 5.5, then to 6.0, then to 6.3.

That's the only upgrade path that is guaranteed to work. You can skip over the upgrade to the x.0 release, but you do so at your own risk.
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Default Feedback keithlybsd ?

keithlybsd, have your upgraded yet ? Did it go smoothly ?.

I have a FreeBSD 5.5 mail server which I have to upgrade before May 31st. I have a custom kernel, do you think I can follow Dru's upgrade guide from 5.5 to 6.0 ?. Then upgrade from 6.0 to 6.3 ?.

Do you think the custom kernel would make these upgrades a little more tricky ?

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When doing upgrades across major versions, always install the GENERIC kernel first and make sure things run with that. Once you have the OS installed fully (build|installworld, build|installkernel, mergemaster, reboot), then you can edit your kernel config file and build a custom kernel.
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Default Upgrade didn't go so well

Ok thanks for your reply.... But unfortunately I didn't come back to a generic kernel. I deactivated most of the options I had put in my custom kernel except for the pf ones and rebuilded world, then rebooted.


After that I tried Dru's howto (http://www.oreillynet.com/sysadmin/b..._60_beta1.html) and tried to update from 5.5 to RELENG_6, but I got this :


--------------------------------------------
===> sbin/ipf/libipf (obj)
/usr/obj/usr/src/sbin/ipf/libipf created for /usr/src/sbin/ipf/libipf
===> sbin/ipf/ipf (obj)
mkdir: /usr/obj/usr/src/sbin/ipf/ipf: File exists
*** Error code 1
Stop in /usr/src/sbin/ipf/ipf.
*** Error code 1
Stop in /usr/src/sbin/ipf.
*** Error code 1
Stop in /usr/src/sbin.
*** Error code 1
Stop in /usr/src.
*** Error code 1
Stop in /usr/src.
*** Error code 1
Stop in /usr/src.



So I did this :

cd /usr/obj/
ls
chflags -R noschg *
rm -rf *


Then I did a cvsup again with RELENG_6_1 and rebuilded world and all went OK.

But I haven't rebooted yet. So my question is : do you think everything is ok so I can reboot or is there something I forgot ?.

And since I didn't come back to a GENERIC kernel before updating do you think I should start all over again ? thatis :

Go back to 5.5 GENERIC,
Upgrade to 6.1


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When crossing major version boundaries *always* upgrade to the .0 release first, before going to the last .x release. That's the *only* method that is supported and guaranteed to work. Going from X.y to A.b will almost certainly failed (as you discovered).

Doesn't anyone read what I post anymore? I mentioned this at the beginning of this thread.

To upgrade from 5.x to 6.x you *have* to go to 5.5, then 6.0, then 6.whatever.
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OK thanks.

Well it's the case, I had read thatyou advised to upgrade to X.0 first and so I modified my cvsup file to RELENG_6.

And that updated me to 6.3.

That's why I didn't upgrade first to 6.0.

So to start over here are the steps I have to follow right ? :

modify cvsup file to RELENG_6_0,
cvsup
makebuildworld and make build kernel and make install kernel
reboot.

And that should go smoothly right ? (although I've already rebuilded 6_1 and haven't rebooted).

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