Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 15:01:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: Thomas Ching <tching@arraynetworks.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: boot loader Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.0.9999.0710261459180.75470@qbhto.arg> In-Reply-To: <BBBF2B6511353C4CAABD39BFAC8CB4F10167CED7@Exchange.arraynetworks.net> References: <BBBF2B6511353C4CAABD39BFAC8CB4F10167CED7@Exchange.arraynetworks.net>
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On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, Thomas Ching wrote: > Thanks Doug for your help. I am cc'ing freebsd-questions and I will drop > freebsd-hackers from the next email on. Cool, thanks. > A few things: > 1. it's not a requirement, but I'd like to keep the current partitions > (therefore dual boot) just in case anything goes wrong. You can't dual boot without a console. Even if you could, as I said previously you're running the (non-trivial) risk of bricking your system. > 3. I guess what you are saying is that if I go with the upgrade path > release 4->5->6, I can do "in place" upgrade over network. Yes. This isn't trivial either, but it's a moderately well tested upgrade path. hth, Doug
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