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Cc: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org>, freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>,
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Subject: Re: 8.0-RELEASE completed...
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Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> writes:
> It is possible, but not easy. Upgrading from 7.x to 8.0 on the same
> architecture is not that hard IMHO. Upgrading from i386 to amd64 on the s=
ame
> release is doable but tricky; you need a spare root partition to install =
the
> amd64 binaries.

Not at all, just make a backup of /etc, extract the amd64 dist on top of
your existing system, then restore whichever parts of /etc got clobbered.

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