4.7 --> 6.0 via cvsup

[Kris Kennaway]

On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 10:19:54PM +0100, K?vesd?n G?bor wrote:
> hal wrote:
> 
> >I have a system running 4.7.  Can I upgrade it to
> >6.0 via cvsup?  If not what is the best way?
> >
> Afaik, You must upgrade to 5.x first and then You can move to 6.x. 

Yes.  It might be easier to do a binary upgrade (i.e. download 6.0
release media, use sysinstall's 'upgrade' option), or even to backup
and reinstall from scratch.

> Anyway FreeBSD 4.x uses an older and slower filesystem UFS1, whilst 
> FreeBSD 5.x and newer uses UFS2.

There is no measurable speed difference between UFS1 and 2, it's only
feature differences (e.g. ACL support).

Kris
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