Hi folks, hi Freddy, sorry, missed Your note last year this time.
<fjwc...@gmail.com> aka Freddie Cash schrieb mit Datum Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:04:00 -0700 in m2n.fbsd.stable: |On March 22, 2008 01:01 pm Peter Much wrote: |> Both of them were running Release 5.5, and they were doing all that |> is needed, and I was perfectly happy with this. |> [...] |> So I upgraded the first computer to Release 6.3. The outcome was | |A safer (recommended?) upgrade process when crossing major versions (ie |5.x to 6.x) is to upgrade to the latest release of the "old" version, |then to the .0 release of the "new" version, then to the latest release |of the "new" version. | |So from 5.x to 5.5, then from 5.5 to 6.0, then from 6.0 to 6.3. | |The devs take great pains to make the transition from "latest X.x to Y.0" |simple and mostly fool-proof, and the transition from "Y.x to Y.z" simple |and mostly fool-proof. But there are no guarantees when going from X.x |to Y.z. Maybe its good idea to replay Your message just now, as it seems good advice. I'm just strolling by to tell that I went from 6.3 to 7.2 just now with my testmachine, and this time it was a really good experience so far. I have now only one strangeness, which I think not worth a bug report, but I would invite You to think about what that can be. I post a separate note with better subject for that. And yes, I did ignore the good advice again, but 7.2 isn't officially out for release yet, so there are no safety belts anyway. rgds, PMc _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
