Move existing FreeBSD 4.10 install to DF?

Paul Grunwald pgrunwald at spamthis.comcast.net
Wed Dec 29 22:13:42 PST 2004


Zera William Holladay <zholla1 at xxxxxxx> wrote in
news:Pine.GSO.4.58.0412291938080.15237 at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: 

> 
> 
> On Wed, 30 Dec 2004, Paul Grunwald wrote:
> 
>> I have a stable, working FreeBSD 4.10 install on my development
>> machine. 
>>
>> Is it possible (and easy) to move to DragonFlyBSD without a fresh
>> install? If not, what should I dump/restore to make it as painless as
>> possible?  I have Apache2, Zope3, PHP5, MySQL4, wx200d, and Samba3 on
>> the box now that I don't want to reconfigure again for sport.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> P.
>>
> 
> Have you looked at
> http://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/upgrade-freebsd.cgi ? 
> 
> I don't know if there is a way to know for certain that Apache2,
> Zope3, ... and Samba3 will continue to work as planned unless you go
> ahead and try it.  DragonFlyBSD is a lot of fun though, so it *might*
> be worth the risk???
> 
> FYI: The above link is for FreeBSD 4.9.
> 
> -Zera Holladay
> 

Thanks - that is what I was looking for.  

<sheepish> Not sure how I missed it </sheepish> 





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