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Date:      Mon, 28 Nov 2005 22:19:54 +0100
From:      =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=F6vesd=E1n_G=E1bor?= <gabor.kovesdan@t-hosting.hu>
To:        hal <hal@cc.usu.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 4.7 --> 6.0 via cvsup
Message-ID:  <438B747A.7070006@t-hosting.hu>
In-Reply-To: <4C4F88B5-5D17-44E9-8680-EE15E0E5C3FA@cc.usu.edu>
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hal wrote:

> I have a system running 4.7.  Can I upgrade it to
> 6.0 via cvsup?  If not what is the best way?
>
Afaik, You must upgrade to 5.x first and then You can move to 6.x. 
Anyway FreeBSD 4.x uses an older and slower filesystem UFS1, whilst 
FreeBSD 5.x and newer uses UFS2. Accordingly, a fresh install is 
recommended with the repartitioning of the disk.

Cheers,

Gabor Kovesdan



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