Re: Upgrade v5.x to v7.0

2008-08-13 Thread Vince Sabio
** At 12:14 -0400 on 08/11/2008, Robert Huff wrote: Vince Sabio writes: I am currently running FreeBSD v5.1 (yes, I am a Bad Person(tm)), Why? Why am I a Bad Person(tm), or why am I still running v5.1? and need to update it to v7.0. Questions: 1. Can I go straight from

Upgrade v5.x to v7.0

2008-08-11 Thread Robert Huff
Vince Sabio writes: I am currently running FreeBSD v5.1 (yes, I am a Bad Person(tm)), Why? and need to update it to v7.0. Questions: 1. Can I go straight from v5.1 to v7.0? Or do I need to make a stop at v6.x? It is probably technically possible. However:

Upgrade v5.x to v7.0

2008-08-11 Thread Vince Sabio
I am currently running FreeBSD v5.1 (yes, I am a Bad Person(tm)), and need to update it to v7.0. Questions: 1. Can I go straight from v5.1 to v7.0? Or do I need to make a stop at v6.x? 2. I'm Unix shell literate with a reasonable level of Solaris sysadmin experience, but have no experience

Re: Upgrade v5.x to v7.0

2008-08-11 Thread Ivan Voras
Vince Sabio wrote: I am currently running FreeBSD v5.1 (yes, I am a Bad Person(tm)), and need to update it to v7.0. Questions: 1. Can I go straight from v5.1 to v7.0? Or do I need to make a stop at v6.x? Theoretically it might be possible but definitely not recommended. 5.1 is very old

Re: Upgrade v5.x to v7.0

2008-08-11 Thread Vince Sabio
** At 00:25 +0200 on 08/12/2008, Ivan Voras wrote: Vince Sabio wrote: I am currently running FreeBSD v5.1 (yes, I am a Bad Person(tm)), and need to update it to v7.0. Questions: 1. Can I go straight from v5.1 to v7.0? Or do I need to make a stop at v6.x? Theoretically it might be possible