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liquid writes:

>  To be completely honest, I don't think it's good "practise" to
>  use cvsup to go from freebsd 4-series to freebsd 5.

	Allow me to second this.  Within a major release, I use cvsup;
across releases, I start with a clean disk and install de novo.  Has
the side-benefit of cleaning out usused cruft,


				Robert Huff