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Subject: Re: how to remote update 4.10 -> 5.3?
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Palle Girgensohn wrote:

> I've tried the UPDATING instructions, both locally and remotely (the 
> latter failed ;-). But really, everything has to be reinstalled, ports 
> and the lot, so a new install is probably the best way...
>

That's not so bad.  A reinstall means you can newfs your partitions as 
UFS2 filesystems, which wouldn't be the case if you upgraded 4.10 in-place.

Cheers,

Paul.
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