On Tue, 9 May 2006, Scott Harrison wrote: > This sounds nice except that I do not have my disk already > partitioned like this. Can I take a 4.7 machine (for example) and > live repartition it to be like this?
It /is/ possible to upgrade from at least some versions of FreeBSD 4 to some versions of FreeBSD 5 remotely without a spare partition (I've done it a few times), but there's lots that can go wrong. See http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/stable/2004-01/0033.html Watch out, though, after the 'tar' step you may find your binaries don't work (including binaries like 'reboot'). Keeping a copy is a good idea. _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
