Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:55:29 -0800 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no> Cc: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 8.0-RELEASE completed... Message-ID: <20091127215529.GA78724@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <86hbsflnva.fsf@ds4.des.no> References: <1259283983.92302.23.camel@neo.cse.buffalo.edu> <20091127030601.CAB2C1CC0E@ptavv.es.net> <20091127055757.GA75657@thought.org> <20091127083304.GA8618@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <86hbsflnva.fsf@ds4.des.no>
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On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 09:22:01PM +0100, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote: > Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> writes: > > It is possible, but not easy. Upgrading from 7.x to 8.0 on the same > > architecture is not that hard IMHO. Upgrading from i386 to amd64 on the same > > release is doable but tricky; you need a spare root partition to install the > > amd64 binaries. > > Not at all, just make a backup of /etc, extract the amd64 dist on top of > your existing system, then restore whichever parts of /etc got clobbered. > > DES > -- > Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des@des.no Thanks, gentlemen. Mostly, my post was just a pondering; wondering if it might be better to re-do stuff now, But then my new server still isn't finished and probably won't be until next week. So best to stick with what I'm familar with. gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 7.31a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php
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