Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 12:52:33 +0000 From: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.3 -> 6.2 should work right? Message-ID: <20070124125233.1e3a8ec1@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <45B4F7FA.8020308@freemail.hu> References: <45B4D5FA.7000000@poughkeepsieschools.org> <45B4F7FA.8020308@freemail.hu>
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On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 18:44:26 +0100 Nagy L=E1szl=F3 Zsolt <nagylzs@freemail.hu> wrote: =20 > By the way, updating a system from 5 to 6 is a headache. (Updating > from 4 to 5 is much easier.) Many will suggest (including me) to > install your new 6.2 system from binaries, and then transfer your > programs and users, if possible. That an odd thing to say. The major version number was only bumped to 6 because some interfaces changed. I remember it as a particularly easy upgrade, simpler than the average 5.x to 5.x+1 upgrade. The 4.x to 5.x upgrade was one of the most radical.
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