Re: upgrade from FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE

[Bill Hacker <wbh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Janet Sullivan wrote:

> Are there any known issues upgrading from FreeBSD 4.11 to Dragonfly, or 
> should the instructions at 
> http://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/upgrade-freebsd.cgi still work just fine?

4.10 and later have a progressively increasing number of 5.X'ish 
backports included. (I run 4.9 thru 4.11-STABLE).

I do not know if those steps will still work without further ado, but I 
can say that if you can do so, a 'clean' DragonFlyBSD install from ISO, 
newfs and all, is *very much* faster - and very trouble-free.

I can have DragonFlyBSD up from ISO, then thru binary (pkgsrc) 
installation put on my httpd, Squid, Zope/Plone, PostgreSQL, MTA, 
IMAP/POP, and (when wanted), even X with GNOME and/or Xfce-4, in less 
time than the 'make' cycle can do the kernel and world alone.

So far, SpamAssassin and the latest Exim are all that I have had to 
build from ports.  pkg_add -rv {whatever} did the rest painlessly.

Installation of the dports, followed by a cvsup to latest FreeBSD ports 
tree, adding portupgrade, and using it on the few that portaudit 
complains about then gets you about as current as can be (some pkgsrc 
are not the latest).

YMMV,

Bill Hacker