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From: Jay Moore <jaymo@cromagnon.cullmail.com>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD Upgrade from 5.2 to 5.4
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On Tuesday 27 September 2005 08:43 pm, Peter Clutton wrote:
> > What's the deal? I've read the upgrade documentation, but it's just not
> > clear
> > to me what's going on - can someone point me to a better/more detailed
> > source
> > of documentation on the upgrade process (in particular wrt HD config)?
>
>  This might help:
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html
>  No hard drive messing required. You will also need to read up on csv in
> handbook.

This is pretty old hardware - 200 MHz Pentium; I tried the makeworld route 
once before, and it took too long. I just wanted a nice, simple, binary 
upgrade... maybe that's not possible; maybe I will have to do a fresh 
install.