5 to 6

[Chuck Swiger]

On Oct 19, 2006, at 9:39 AM, Randy Bush wrote:
> do folk actually successfully upgrade
>
> # uname -a
> FreeBSD psg.com 5.5-STABLE FreeBSD 5.5-STABLE #15: Sun Oct  1  
> 18:41:24 GMT 2006     root at psg.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PSG  i386
>
> to RELENG_6  *safely* on a many-user production system using the
> instructions in UPDATING?

Certainly.  My definition of "*safely*" means having a full backup of  
the system to which I can go back to if the OS version upgrade  
doesn't work; if you don't have a good backup, well, you can probably  
update from 5 to 6 just fine, but I would not consider doing so to be  
completely safe.

-- 
-Chuck