Upgrading Drupal

I just finished an upgrade fro 4.6.11 to 6.1. Amazingly (kudos!) things seem to be working so far for the most part. Unfortunately I have run across an incompatibility with the node paths and was wondering if there is a quick fix.

I was using the 4.6 rewrite engine so my node paths typically look like this:
http://my.site/node/view/111

Hi all,
maybe you can help me. After having many troubles with the update to more recent version of my 4.6.4. I really do not see any other option than to install fresh Drupal 6.1. and start from scratch with a new clean database.
I have database dump (done by PhpMyAdmin) of my old system 4.6.4 and I would like to ask if there could be any chance to import the nodes (all articles and its comments - nothing more) to the new 6.1 system once installed.
Thanks a lot for any advice.

I just upgraded today from 5.1 to 5.7, and that worked fine. So I tried the same method to upgrade to 6.2.

- Copied the 5.7 site to the test site. Changed sites/default/settings.php to point to the test database.
- Copied the 5.7 database to the test database.
- Put the site into admin mode, turned off all the non-core modules.
- Un-tarred the 6.1 stuff on top of the test site.
- Went to http://bna.xcski.com/update.php and got all these errors:

warning: pg_query() [function.pg-query]: Query failed: ERROR: adding columns with defaults is not implemented HINT: Add the column, then use ALTER TABLE SET DEFAULT. in /www/bna/drupal-6.1/includes/database.pgsql.inc on line 138.
user warning: ERROR: adding columns with defaults is not implemented HINT: Add the column, then use ALTER TABLE SET DEFAULT. query: ALTER TABLE cache ADD COLUMN serialized smallint NOT NULL default 0 in /www/bna/drupal-6.1/includes/database.pgsql.inc on line 684.
warning: pg_query() [function.pg-query]: Query failed: ERROR: adding columns with defaults is not implemented HINT: Add the column, then use ALTER TABLE SET DEFAULT. in /www/bna/drupal-6.1/includes/database.pgsql.inc on line 138.

Hi

I am trying to upgrade my existing Drupal 5.x site to Drupal 6.1, and this is what I get:

* user warning: Table 'MYSITE_drpl1.flood' doesn't exist query: ALTER TABLE flood ADD fid int NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY in /home/MYSITE/public_html/drupal-6.1/modules/system/system.install on line 1438.
    * user warning: Can't DROP 'link'; check that column/key exists query: ALTER TABLE aggregator_feed DROP KEY link in /home/MYSITE/public_html/drupal-6.1/includes/database.mysql-common.inc on line 417.
    * user warning: BLOB/TEXT column 'url' used in key specification without a key length query: ALTER TABLE aggregator_feed ADD UNIQUE KEY url (url) in /home/MYSITE/public_html/drupal-6.1/includes/database.mysql-common.inc on line 403.
    * user warning: Table 'MYSITE_drpl1.flood' doesn't exist query: ALTER TABLE flood ADD INDEX allow (event, hostname, timestamp) in /home/MYSITE/public_html/drupal-6.1/includes/database.mysql-common.inc on line 434.
    * user warning: Duplicate entry '1-0' for key 1 query: ALTER TABLE locales_target ADD PRIMARY KEY (language, lid, plural) in /home/MYSITE/public_html/drupal-6.1/includes/database.mysql-common.inc on line 374.

Now I can't login to the site as administrator. I can't even display the site unless I change the settings.php to:

$update_free_access = FALSE;

Ok..so what happened was, once I was done adding my backup files to the directory, my cpu crashed. I was in the progress of upgrading from 5x to 6x. I had to restart my cpu and off course it was hell on earth from there. When I finally got the update.php file to work, I got so many error logs it was enough to drive me crazy. I just wanna go back to 5x. I'm in the process of doing that but 1. drupal wont even show with my domain. 2. I have the Site folder and files from Drupal 6x that for some odd reason I cannot delete.

This probably seems like a dumb question, but I just signed up with Bluehost who has the latest release of Drupal available. However, I've discovered that most of the contributed modules don't work yet with version 6. Would it make sense to downgrade to version 5.7 for the time being? If yes, they how do I do that, given the fact that I'm using a provider that only has the v. 6.1 available?
John