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" =3D=3D Andreas Rudisch <"cyb."@gmx.net> writes: >=20 > Andreas> On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 23:46:53 +0100 > Andreas> Matthias Petermann <matthias@d2ux.net> wrote: >=20 >>> Thanks for the clearification. One technical thing: is it possible, = to upgrade >>> from FreeBSD 9.0 to 9.1 with the freebsd-update utility?=20 >=20 > Andreas> Yes, it is. >=20 > 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. =20
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