From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 27 21:55:37 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C5CE106568D; Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:55:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from aristotle.thought.org (aristotle.thought.org [209.180.213.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05E2D8FC08; Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:55:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by aristotle.thought.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id nARLt47e053820; Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:55:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:55:30 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:55:29 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= Message-ID: <20091127215529.GA78724@thought.org> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <86hbsflnva.fsf@ds4.des.no> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 23 years of service to the Unix community. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on aristotle.thought.org X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 23:07:16 +0000 Cc: Roland Smith , freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable Subject: Re: 8.0-RELEASE completed... X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:55:37 -0000 On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 09:22:01PM +0100, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote: > Roland Smith 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 -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 7.31a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php