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Date:      Mon, 03 Mar 2008 12:43:39 +0100
From:      Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz>
To:        Andreas Pettersson <andpet@telia.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Upgrading 5.4 to 6 or 7
Message-ID:  <47CBE46B.2070705@quip.cz>
In-Reply-To: <47CBC298.8000207@telia.com>
References:  <47CBC298.8000207@telia.com>

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Andreas Pettersson wrote:

> Hi all.
> 
> I have an old FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE #0 and was wondering if anyone has any 
> opinion whether I should do a binary upgrade to 6.3 from CD or do a csup 
> and makeworld? May I run into any difficulties in the future depending 
> on which way I go?
> 
> Or is it perhaps possible to go direct to 7.0?

AFAIK there is recommended way: from 5.4 to (5.5) 6.0, then to 6.3, then 
to 7.0 (I did it by cvsup & build+install)

Miroslav Lachman



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