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John Murphy wrote:

>"stormjumper" <stormjumper@myrealbox.com> wrote:
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>>hi everyone,
>>
>>I'm running FreeBSD 4.8 at the moment, just wondering if someone can point
>>me to a relevant web-page take explains the process of upgrading to a
>>different version clearly.
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>See http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.9R/relnotes-i386.html#UPGRADE
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>Which explains that there are two ways, binary or source.  It also mentions
>that you read /usr/src/UPDATING (when you have the new sources) as well.
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>>Is there an issue if i "skip" versions, say from 4.4 to 4.9? or 4.8 to 5.2,
>>the RELEASE issues notwithstanding?
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>4.4 to 4.9 should be straightforward but 4.8 to 5.2 would be harder, but all
>possible issues are usually well covered in /usr/src/UPDATING.
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And 4.X to 5.X is recommended *against* by some
users/community members.  A dump of your data
and a fresh install is better, they say.

Part of the reason is so that you have opportunity
to switch to ufs2 filesystems; the rest, I'm not sure
about.

Kevin Kinsey