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Date:      Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:55:29 -0800
From:      Gary Kline <kline@thought.org>
To:        Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
Cc:        Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: 8.0-RELEASE completed...
Message-ID:  <20091127215529.GA78724@thought.org>
In-Reply-To: <86hbsflnva.fsf@ds4.des.no>
References:  <1259283983.92302.23.camel@neo.cse.buffalo.edu> <20091127030601.CAB2C1CC0E@ptavv.es.net> <20091127055757.GA75657@thought.org> <20091127083304.GA8618@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <86hbsflnva.fsf@ds4.des.no>

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On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 09:22:01PM +0100, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote:
> 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 same
> > 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.
> 
> DES
> -- 
> Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des@des.no


	Thanks, gentlemen.  Mostly, my post was just a pondering;
	wondering if it might be better to re-do stuff now,  But then
	my new server still isn't finished and probably won't be until
	next week.  So best to stick with what I'm familar with.

	gary

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