The advice given to stay with FreeBSD V4.9-stable is good advice. There are some major changes coming to current version 5.2 which has not been released yet. Wait till then and read the email archives for current before you upgrade.
An alternative way of upgrading is to use CVS and makeworld. It takes practice to build confidence using this method or at least it did for me. Read the FreeBSD manual at www.freebsd.org. Then reread. Then practice on a non-productional machine. One other secret that I have learned is that once you are comfortable with cvs upgrades, do them every couple of weeks rather then every 6 months. They will go much more smoothly and quickly. YMMV. Good luck. Dick -- President Cramer Systems Consulting / Sytex Access Ltd. [EMAIL PROTECTED] POB 2385 Fairfax, VA 22031-0385 Ph: 703.425.2515 Mid-Atlantic: Fairfax, VA --- SouthEast: Bradenton/Sarasota Managed Hosting & Colocation, LAN & WAN Engineering, Unix Consulting We use and support: FreeBSD, MAC OS X, Sun Systems, Apache & Postfix
