From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 3 19:01:59 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 6E4D5106566B for ; Mon, 3 Mar 2008 19:01:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from parish@magichamster.com) Received: from jedburgh.just4dns.com (jedburgh.just4dns.com [78.129.134.130]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3269A8FC25 for ; Mon, 3 Mar 2008 19:01:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from parish@magichamster.com) Received: from [217.43.177.184] (helo=movens.plus.com) by jedburgh.just4dns.com with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JWFDU-0002nr-CK for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 03 Mar 2008 18:16:48 +0000 Received: from [10.10.1.4] (redshift [10.10.1.4]) by postbag.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id E42E21CC59 for ; Mon, 3 Mar 2008 18:16:58 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <47CC4097.9090206@magichamster.com> Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 18:16:55 +0000 From: Mark Ovens User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20080212) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Mailing List References: <47A3C37B.10707@tundraware.com> <47CAA5DC.5050700@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <47CAA5DC.5050700@infracaninophile.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Fuzioned-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-MailScanner-ID: 1JWFDU-0002nr-CK X-Fuzioned-MailScanner: Not scanned: please contact your Internet E-Mail Service Provider for details X-Fuzioned-MailScanner-SpamCheck: X-Fuzioned-MailScanner-From: parish@magichamster.com X-Spam-Status: No X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - jedburgh.just4dns.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - magichamster.com X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Subject: Re: So How Hard Is Moving From 6.3 To 7.0? 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: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 19:01:59 -0000 This post hasn't appeared on the list after almost 24 hours so I'm re-posting. Apologies if it appears twice. It seems that about 50% of the posts I make to the lists (-questions and -ports) never show up. Matthew Seaman wrote: > > I've been doing a bunch of 6.x -> 7.0 upgrades recently. Here's a > few hints I've picked up along the way: > [snip the gory details] Thanks for that Matthew, it confirms that I've made the right decision to do a completely clean install :-) Which leads me to ask if there are likely to be any issues with dual-booting 6.3-STABLE (as of ~1 month ago) and 7.0-RELEASE? I vaguely recall from way back there being issues with dual-booting multiple versions of FreeBSD. Maybe that was when trying to install both in the same slice? Mine will be installed on separate hard disks. The only thing I could think may possibly be an issue is the FreeBSD Boot Manager. The current setup uses the FBSD BM to boot FBSD and Ubuntu on separate disks - it's the Ubuntu disk that I will be zapping to install 7 - is there anything to watch out for (apart from the obvious stupidity of selecting the wrong disk to newfs ;-) ) Regards, Mark