On Oct 19, 2011, at 12:45 PM, Kurt Buff wrote:
>> You can do either.  However, it's probably easier to just download and burn 
>> the 7.4 or 8.2 image, and do an upgrade directly than it would be do upgrade 
>> via source to 7.0-RELEASE and then try freebsd-update.
> 
> Gotta love conflicting answers from you and Adam

Well, you did ask for opinions.  They tend to not be conflict-free.... :-)

I haven't had problems doing a reinstall from a new ISO image to update a 
FreeBSD box which was more than a major release out of date.  But, I was at 
pains to verify that I had complete backups and time to rollback if needed, and 
I also made sure to rebuild all of the ports after doing the OS 
reinstall/upgrade.

> I've got an ISO of 7.4. I think I'll do a dump of my data to a remote
> machine, do the update, and see what that gets me.

OK.

Regards,
-- 
-Chuck

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