Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 07:04:43 -0700 From: "Jason C. Wells" <jcw@highperformance.net> To: Jason Slack <slackmoehrle@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading FreeBSD Questions Message-ID: <472739FB.3020503@highperformance.net> In-Reply-To: <7dc35e670710291625l43902c92o5b364f84bf769811@mail.gmail.com> References: <7dc35e670710291625l43902c92o5b364f84bf769811@mail.gmail.com>
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Jason Slack wrote: > I want to try version 7 as it has items of interest to me, but I am not one > to continually wipe and reload my machine, can you upgrade from the test > releases of 7 available now to the final release when ready? Or do you have > to wipe? > You can easily upgrade from 7.0-BETA to 7.0-RELEASE without erasing your drive. Historically, FreeBSD has always been upgradeable even through major releases, 4 to 5, 5 to 6. Sometimes that has been more painful than others. Upgrading within a major release, 6.1 to 6.2, has always been pretty easy. Later, Jason
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