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Date:      Sun, 31 Jan 2010 19:45:50 +0800
From:      Erich Dollansky <erich@alogreentechnologies.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        Volodymyr Kostyrko <c.kworr@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: Help! Upgrade from fbsd 5.4 to 8.x
Message-ID:  <201001311945.52469.erich@alogreentechnologies.com>
In-Reply-To: <4B65670B.6070201@gmail.com>
References:  <20100130225014.C36480@fw.skeleton.org> <4B65670B.6070201@gmail.com>

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Hi,

On 31 January 2010 pm 19:18:35 Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote:
> On 31.01.2010 06:08, Jeff Mitchell wrote:
> 
> > Strikes me most people will recommend (3) -- nice big new drive, no risk
> > of destroying a working machine (can always slap old drive back in),
> > easy migration of service by service, etc and so on. Strikes me as a
> > PITA, but then again .. the others are probably all PITAs as well given
> > the age of the box. Something will break, so maybe its best to just
> > start fresh with a nice new install and go from there.
> 
> Get a stick of flash, build system, install it on the flash and boot 
> from it. Try to keep all of your old binaries - I personally don't think 

hardware running 5.4 typically will not boot from USB.

Erich



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