On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 10:23:57AM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 08:59:25AM +, Matthew Seaman wrote:
It sounds to me as if your new machine has hardware which is supported
under 5.x but not 4.9. That's a very good reason to install 5.2 --
caveats about early adopters notwithstanding, by all accounts 5.2 is
turning out nicely. I'd worry about using it for a system that was
mission critical to a business (read: financial consequences if it
isn't up and running), but for a home system I think it would do very
well.
I'm going toput 5.2 on my new DNS server; but from scratch.
SWondering how dificult it is to upgrade from 4.[78] to 5.[latest].
Is the UPGRADING file suffieient? I've heard the 5.X is the
cat's meow
UPGRADING should be sufficient if you are an experienced user.
However, you will miss out on the ability to do various things, like
create UFS2 filesystems or repartition your drives -- the shared root
feature makes quite a difference. I think a wipe and re-install is
generally a good idea over a major version bump, but if you can't do
that, then update in place is the next best thing.
Cheers,
Matthew
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