Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 06:54:39 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: "Michael P. Soulier" <msoulier@digitaltorque.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: upgrade path from 5.5 Message-ID: <20080907185439.GA23657@osiris.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <fb6605670809061026h2e7f0019sda24d4d1541adb69@mail.gmail.com> References: <fb6605670809061026h2e7f0019sda24d4d1541adb69@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, Sep 06, 2008 at 01:26:04PM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> So if some ports aren't supported on 5.5, I'd better get my aging
> gateway upgraded.
>
> This begs the question of the correct path. I'm tempted to do a fresh
> install of 7.0 and then restore, but mergemaster does a better job of
> making sure the config files are both updated, and that nothing is
> lost.
>
> Would the correct path be 5.5 -> 6.3 -> 7.0?
I would personally be tempted to do a fresh install of 7.0, and then
boot single user, copy over old config files and then run a
mergemaster.
Cheers.
--
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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