On Monday 29 October 2007, Jason Slack wrote: > Hi All, > > I am new to FreeBSD, or want to be. > > I have an HP Media center PC that has the Viiv 920-D processor with 4GB of > RAM. I hate Windows, but had to sell my MacBook so my Fiance and I could > get into a new apartment together. > > I want to try version 7 as it has items of interest to me, but I am not one > to continually wipe and reload my machine, can you upgrade from the test > releases of 7 available now to the final release when ready? Or do you have > to wipe?
With FreeBSD you can (by and large) upgrade from anything to anything. Certainly from 6.x or 7-beta to 7.0 release when that happens. (Upgrades to later 7.x releases will be painless as well.) You can do a binary upgrade, but most people on this list (-stable) will use source upgrade. See http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge.html It's really a fairly straightforward procedure, especially for someone with Unix background like yourself. When you upgrade, make sure you're using the source tag that you want (maybe RELENG_7_0 for you, which is the release branch - only critical fixes will go in this after the release happens). Welcome to FreeBSD. -David _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
