From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 30 20:03:39 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB03416A4DA for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 20:03:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ambargal@cisco.com) Received: from sj-iport-4.cisco.com (sj-iport-4.cisco.com [171.68.10.86]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8401743D69 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 20:03:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ambargal@cisco.com) Received: from sj-dkim-5.cisco.com ([171.68.10.79]) by sj-iport-4.cisco.com with ESMTP; 30 Aug 2006 13:02:54 -0700 X-IronPort-AV: i="4.08,189,1154934000"; d="scan'208,217"; a="1851264424:sNHT371253988" Received: from sj-core-3.cisco.com (sj-core-3.cisco.com [171.68.223.137]) by sj-dkim-5.cisco.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k7UK2r6k007959 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 13:02:53 -0700 Received: from xbh-sjc-211.amer.cisco.com (xbh-sjc-211.cisco.com [171.70.151.144]) by sj-core-3.cisco.com (8.12.10/8.12.6) with ESMTP id k7UK2rw7004984 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 13:02:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from xmb-sjc-231.amer.cisco.com ([128.107.191.73]) by xbh-sjc-211.amer.cisco.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Wed, 30 Aug 2006 13:02:53 -0700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 13:02:53 -0700 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Upgrading BSD Thread-Index: AcbMb0cHSj0uiDIKSeWz+KBCxdU+Uw== From: "Amita Bargal \(ambargal\)" To: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 30 Aug 2006 20:02:53.0820 (UTC) FILETIME=[4769F3C0:01C6CC6F] DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; l=2184; t=1156968173; x=1157832173; c=relaxed/simple; s=sjdkim5002; h=Content-Type:From:Subject:Content-Transfer-Encoding:MIME-Version; d=cisco.com; i=ambargal@cisco.com; z=From:=22Amita=20Bargal=20\(ambargal\)=22=20 |Subject:Upgrading=20BSD; X=v=3Dcisco.com=3B=20h=3DRcTk3fnJHB7iILpIQ0IWseSwll8=3D; b=RhSBN1NQuBIBIQQC10LQ2nANtkSHwop/aDK1hO8AD7j/EyFSVPTpwjB9gWmB8iI/V5tr8E5w baXDppUIRoz00j5tkLRJ1l1/sIJhl/pDuQF4gSSJP3o9QMi5YU7xKCHT; Authentication-Results: sj-dkim-5.cisco.com; header.From=ambargal@cisco.com; dkim=pass ( 59 extraneous bytes; sig from cisco.com verified; ); Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: Upgrading BSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 20:03:39 -0000 Hi, =20 I have a machine which has BSD 4.8 on it. Is it possible to upgrade to version 6.0 without affecting/deleting/losing any files currently present on the machine. =20 $ uname -a FreeBSD tcp-01-pc7 4.8-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE #1: Fri Jul 18 10:43:30 PDT 2003 devtest@tcp-pc3:/usr/devtest/kame/freebsd4/sys/compile/tcp-pc3 i386 $=20 =20 Thanks, Amita