Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 17:45:23 -0800 From: Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> To: "Randal L. Schwartz" <merlyn@stonehenge.com> Cc: Andreas Rudisch <"cyb."@gmx.net>, Matthias Petermann <matthias@d2ux.net>, Michael Sierchio <kudzu@tenebras.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: WARNING: FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE is approaching its End-of-Life date. Message-ID: <45F8E364-217A-4221-9CF4-E8226ED03B10@lafn.org> In-Reply-To: <86zk2is6i6.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> References: <20121115225711.3cd8b952c68e1bcc67d08977@d2ux.net> <CAHu1Y71zLiNm5mZz=w3fWsZNr7WAXXekH6owQW32j%2BBGE5ZdnA@mail.gmail.com> <20121115234653.704f5813534aedc596659f51@d2ux.net> <20121116002555.9b18ff13e9d56ac1af402853@gmx.net> <86zk2is6i6.fsf@red.stonehenge.com>
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On 15 November 2012, at 17:04, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: >>>>>> "Andreas" == Andreas Rudisch <"cyb."@gmx.net> writes: > > Andreas> On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 23:46:53 +0100 > Andreas> Matthias Petermann <matthias@d2ux.net> wrote: > >>> Thanks for the clearification. One technical thing: is it possible, to upgrade >>> from FreeBSD 9.0 to 9.1 with the freebsd-update utility? > > Andreas> Yes, it is. > > Can I go from 8.3 directly to 9.1, or should I stop over at 9.0 first? For me that was not possible. My disks were partitioned and labeled when FreeBSD 4.7 was new. The size of the root partition was now too small for 9.0. I had to do a complete install and reformat of the drives to get to 9.0. My root partition was a bit small for 7.x as I had to delete the symbol files to make it fit.home | help
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