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Date:      Sat, 6 Jun 2009 21:40:44 -0400
From:      "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com>
To:        Alex Stangl <alex@stangl.us>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Problem w/ 6.0 -> 7.2 update
Message-ID:  <d7195cff0906061840p3a9161d1wb7a377744b6e38d3@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20090606201303.GD26421@scout.stangl.us>
References:  <20090606201303.GD26421@scout.stangl.us>

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2009/6/6 Alex Stangl <alex@stangl.us>:

> It's also not clear to me whether using freebsd-update.sh is the right
> approach for upgrading from 6.0-RELEASE to 7.2-RELEASE, or if I should
> follow some alternate approach, like booting the 7.2 CD and doing a
> binary upgrade from there?

I've always done such upgrades from source.  It's fairly (!)
simple and reasonably well documented (see the end of
/usr/src/UPDATING) and some due care has prevented any
maimings or deaths.

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