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Date:      Thu, 19 Oct 2006 16:16:01 -0700
From:      Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org>
To:        "Hans F. Nordhaug" <Hans.F.Nordhaug@hiMolde.no>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: daemonology.net instructions - binary upgrade 5.3 to 6.1
Message-ID:  <45380731.9010004@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20061019193846.GA6209@hiMolde.no>
References:  <20061019193846.GA6209@hiMolde.no>

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Hans F. Nordhaug wrote:
> At daemonology.net Colin Percival has some excellent instructions on
> how to do binary upgrades - he has even written a script to do a 6.0
> to 6.1 upgrade. My question is: Can I do a 5.3 to 6.1 upgrade using
> the instructions for "5.4 system to FreeBSD 6.0" - see
> http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-upgrade-5.4-to-6.0/
> Or, should I upgrade 5.3 to 6.0 and finally use the script to
> get from 6.0 to 6.1? I assume the former, but just want to be sure.

Either option will probably work; but I've never done a 5.3->6.0 binary
upgrade directly, so I can't guarantee that it will work. :-)

Colin Percival



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