Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 07:57:01 -0500 From: Javier Henderson <javier@kjsl.com> To: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.3 -> 6.2 should work right? Message-ID: <5C005D0A-9E3D-4820-AF56-5E6FCBECAC05@kjsl.com> In-Reply-To: <20070124125233.1e3a8ec1@gumby.homeunix.com> References: <45B4D5FA.7000000@poughkeepsieschools.org> <45B4F7FA.8020308@freemail.hu> <20070124125233.1e3a8ec1@gumby.homeunix.com>
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On Jan 24, 2007, at 7:52 AM, RW wrote: > On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 18:44:26 +0100 > Nagy L=E1szl=F3 Zsolt <nagylzs@freemail.hu> wrote: > >> 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 =20 > 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. I will have to agree. I did a remote upgrade of a system running 5.5-=20 RELEASE to 6.2-RELEASE last week, without console access (ie, I had =20 to reboot into multi-user mode a few times during the process) and it =20= worked just fine. -jav
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