Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 19:40:02 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Related Q: (was) Re: Newbie question Message-ID: <20040120194002.GA50873@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20040120182357.GB74976@tao.thought.org> References: <400B18A1.3050104@bredband.net> <20040120085925.GA44545@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> <20040120182357.GB74976@tao.thought.org>
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On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 10:23:57AM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 08:59:25AM +0000, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> >
> > It sounds to me as if your new machine has hardware which is supported
> > under 5.x but not 4.9. That's a very good reason to install 5.2 --
> > caveats about "early adopters" notwithstanding, by all accounts 5.2 is
> > turning out nicely. I'd worry about using it for a system that was
> > mission critical to a business (read: financial consequences if it
> > isn't up and running), but for a home system I think it would do very
> > well.
> >
>
> I'm going toput 5.2 on my new DNS server; but from scratch.
> SWondering how dificult it is to upgrade from 4.[78] to 5.[latest].
> Is the UPGRADING file suffieient? I've heard the 5.X is the
> cat's meow....
UPGRADING should be sufficient if you are an experienced user.
However, you will miss out on the ability to do various things, like
create UFS2 filesystems or repartition your drives -- the shared root
feature makes quite a difference. I think a wipe and re-install is
generally a good idea over a major version bump, but if you can't do
that, then update in place is the next best thing.
Cheers,
Matthew
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