Upgrading from FreeBSD 5.4 to 6 - Make world or binary install?

[Scott Long]

Jim Keller wrote:
> Hello,
>    I'm trying to determine which version of FreeBSD to install on a new 
> server I have coming in, since I know that the 5 branch is to become an 
> errata branch sooner rather than later. The migration guide from 4.x to 
> 5.x recommends a clean install of FreeBSD followed by data restoration, 
> which makes sense considering the major changes in 5.x, especially to 
> the filesystem. However, will this still hold true for going from 5.x to 
> 6? I'd prefer to install 5.4 for now then run a buildworld later and 
> bump it to 6, but will buildworld be a reasonable way of going from 5.4 
> to 6?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> -Jim Keller

Upgrading from 5.4 to 6.0 is very easy.  I did it last weekend on my
firewall+mailserver with just the normal upgrade procedures.  The only
gotcha that I can think of is the renamed serial ports.

Scott