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Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.2 Release
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Ivan Voras wrote:
> Note that things are different when upgrading from one major version to
> another (e.g. 6.x to 7.x), though I even managed to update 5.x to 6.x
> while the machine was "live" the whole time with only minor glitches,
> solved by recompiling ports. I doubt this would work with 6.x->7.x
> because of the many changes.
> 
I'd just like to add for future reference, that upgrading to 7.x from 
6.x is possible, only problems I personally encountered was the above 
problems with ports needing to be recompiled, which is to be expected 
anyway.

Ta,
Joe