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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