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

[Yuriy N. Shkandybin]

Yes, but 
change synproxy state to keep state in pf config file, if you use it .

Jura

> 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
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