2009/9/15 Rom Albuquerque <a_romolo_at_hotmail.com>: > > > > Hi folks. Need help in doing the following, but first want to check > and see if it is feasible with the latest release, or if I'm just going to > be spinning my wheels on this one. > > The Objective. > ============== > > I have a FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE system which I want to upgrade to 7.X > from the source level. Had a bunch of problems installing 7.1-RELEASE from > the CD distribution I got from freebsdmall.com. Several problems that > could not mount the CD at the time of installation causing sysinstall > to halt. So, 4.9 is installed and working, is there a source level > backward compatibility issue between 7.x and anything older than 6.0 ? > In other words, upgrading from the sources with such an old > distribution is a doable task ? > UFS1 v. UFS2, which isn't a big deal. Also, is your root partition large enough? IIRC 4.x defaulted to about 128M for /, which is far too small for 7.x and on. -- --Received on Tue Sep 15 2009 - 16:36:35 UTC
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