Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 19:45:50 +0800 From: Erich Dollansky <erich@alogreentechnologies.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Volodymyr Kostyrko <c.kworr@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Help! Upgrade from fbsd 5.4 to 8.x Message-ID: <201001311945.52469.erich@alogreentechnologies.com> In-Reply-To: <4B65670B.6070201@gmail.com> References: <20100130225014.C36480@fw.skeleton.org> <4B65670B.6070201@gmail.com>
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Hi, On 31 January 2010 pm 19:18:35 Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote: > On 31.01.2010 06:08, Jeff Mitchell wrote: > > > Strikes me most people will recommend (3) -- nice big new drive, no risk > > of destroying a working machine (can always slap old drive back in), > > easy migration of service by service, etc and so on. Strikes me as a > > PITA, but then again .. the others are probably all PITAs as well given > > the age of the box. Something will break, so maybe its best to just > > start fresh with a nice new install and go from there. > > Get a stick of flash, build system, install it on the flash and boot > from it. Try to keep all of your old binaries - I personally don't think hardware running 5.4 typically will not boot from USB. Erich
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