From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 7 19:11:16 2008 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 BF5C2106566C for ; Sun, 7 Sep 2008 19:11:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jonc@chen.org.nz) Received: from chen.org.nz (ip-58-28-152-174.static-xdsl.xnet.co.nz [58.28.152.174]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80F6E8FC22 for ; Sun, 7 Sep 2008 19:11:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jonc@chen.org.nz) Received: by chen.org.nz (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2588C28413; Mon, 8 Sep 2008 06:54:39 +1200 (NZST) Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 06:54:39 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: "Michael P. Soulier" Message-ID: <20080907185439.GA23657@osiris.chen.org.nz> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: upgrade path from 5.5 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: Sun, 07 Sep 2008 19:11:16 -0000 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught." - Marquis de Vauvenargues