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Any possibility of including good upgrade procedure for exisiting users? For example: 5.x to 6? FBSD does a great job of documenting the in-place technique for upgrading within a version (for example: 5.3 to 5.4), but jumping versions is not always as clean-cut. | Any possibility of including good upgrade procedure for exisiting users? For example: 5.x to 6? FBSD does a great job of documenting the in-place technique for upgrading within a version (for example: 5.3 to 5.4), but jumping versions is not always as clean-cut. | ||
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+ | To be honest, I've always found it easier to just back up /etc and /usr/local/etc and do a clean install. Takes less time to do it that way then to go through all the crud with mergemaster and whatnot, in my experience. |
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How do you network up bsd with a windows box?
see Samba. --Jimbo 15:36, 17 Dec 2004 (EST)
upgrade?
Any possibility of including good upgrade procedure for exisiting users? For example: 5.x to 6? FBSD does a great job of documenting the in-place technique for upgrading within a version (for example: 5.3 to 5.4), but jumping versions is not always as clean-cut.
upgrading
To be honest, I've always found it easier to just back up /etc and /usr/local/etc and do a clean install. Takes less time to do it that way then to go through all the crud with mergemaster and whatnot, in my experience.