4.x -> 5.x

[Matthew Seaman]

On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 07:45:15PM +0900, Byung-hee H. wrote:
> i want upgrade from 4.x to 5.x
> Can you tell me a way?

The easiest way is to back up all your important files from your 4.x
system and wipe your disk and do a clean install of 5.x on it.  Then
recover your stuff from the backup.  This has a number of advantages:
you can resize your partitions -- something that often needs to be
done with a major bump in version numbers -- and you can create UFS2
filesystems.

It is possible to upgrade from 4.x to 5.x by downloading the sources
and compiling and installing.  However, the procedure is fairly
complex with all sorts of trickly 'gotchas' that have to be worked
around.  Not suitable for inexperienced users.  See
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/UPDATING?rev=1.282.2.3&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup
for all of the gory details.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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