From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 28 19:27:28 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDFE1106566B for ; Sat, 28 Nov 2009 19:27:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from djackson452@gmail.com) Received: from mail-yw0-f204.google.com (mail-yw0-f204.google.com [209.85.211.204]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E4948FC12 for ; Sat, 28 Nov 2009 19:27:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywh42 with SMTP id 42so2160514ywh.28 for ; Sat, 28 Nov 2009 11:27:27 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=G6GBYXwyomJl7RbPnMabD9mGARj8gj0AKZQzw2Q9Id4=; b=xWGfZ6BVLsjF6IdLSAMF3HHXSW/PsaPTTMeu011062UnfVAZxXa12TidsSwTux3cDM S0IPQivwqjdGeDoG1zjB4OKIq2B/8NOp1bhQrpt8hWPqscTjjF5tdqtWfTSCQC2OteWB A7MF3IsDKNadYKnB+Rb/zMNWs9hWD8lngE82Y= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=buAHE2ttH3ezxFakb26RE0rI/NkvOxMvAtYhkFOndkaJrOIMW0ezh6ZPlO13AS4DqM 0qfzGgt40BYfpAxwNXPYU/ZGBA7l8ToJ1Z6UghjVTKWvzkC9DHhm7PgRyiD7VE7cogQu mTMBFPaYQfBE+2tuc1lgnvsfPc3I48VBZDdZo= Received: by 10.100.40.20 with SMTP id n20mr988798ann.71.1259436447673; Sat, 28 Nov 2009 11:27:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.1.103? (pool-96-254-203-152.tampfl.fios.verizon.net [96.254.203.152]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 7sm1304586yxd.8.2009.11.28.11.27.26 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 28 Nov 2009 11:27:27 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4B11794A.3060604@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2009 14:26:02 -0500 From: David Jackson User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Windows/20090605) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Syinstall binary upgrade to FreeBSD 8.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2009 19:27:28 -0000 I would like to upgrade a 7.1 FreeBSD system to 8.0 FreeBSD using sysinstalls binary upgrade feature. I would mainly for now would like to upgrade the core OS and X and so on, but I still have some 7.1 binaries that will still be on the system. Is there binary compatability with 7.1 binaries on 8.0. Binary compatability is pretty important to me. Anything else i need to know about? As for why I am not using freebsd-update, i did try it once it seemed as though it was going to take 7 hours to update the system., when the old way will have it done in 30 minutes. Thanks in advance.