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On Mon, 07 Apr 2003, kitsune wrote:

> I personally like sysinstall upgrade option myself. I used it to
> upgrade from 4.7 to 4.8 just a few hours ago. What I did was goto
> options change the release name from 4.7-release to 4.8-release and
> then used the upgrade option. The cool thing about this is no boot
> floppies or any thing are needed. 

Even if it works - using the old system's sysinstall is not the suggested way
for binary upgrades!!

	Important: These notes assume that you are using the version of
	sysinstall(8) supplied with the version of FreeBSD to which you
	intend to upgrade. [...] The most commonly made mistake in this
	regard is the use of an old copy of sysinstall(8) from an
	existing installation to upgrade to a newer version of FreeBSD.
	This is not recommended.  

Boot floppies or any thing are needed!!


Ciao, Mark