Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 09:58:58 -0700 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> Cc: FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 5 to 6 Message-ID: <028554CB-0BC9-4F27-A2E1-A8351F0C533E@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <17719.43574.819134.370333@roam.psg.com> References: <17719.43574.819134.370333@roam.psg.com>
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On Oct 19, 2006, at 9:39 AM, Randy Bush wrote: > do folk actually successfully upgrade > > # uname -a > FreeBSD psg.com 5.5-STABLE FreeBSD 5.5-STABLE #15: Sun Oct 1 > 18:41:24 GMT 2006 root@psg.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PSG i386 > > to RELENG_6 *safely* on a many-user production system using the > instructions in UPDATING? Certainly. My definition of "*safely*" means having a full backup of the system to which I can go back to if the OS version upgrade doesn't work; if you don't have a good backup, well, you can probably update from 5 to 6 just fine, but I would not consider doing so to be completely safe. -- -Chuck
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