Re: how to remote update 4.10 -> 5.3?

From: Paul Mather (paul_at_gromit.dlib.vt.edu)
Date: 12/29/04

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    Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 16:38:23 -0500
    To: Palle Girgensohn <girgen@pingpong.net>
    
    

    Palle Girgensohn wrote:

    > I've tried the UPDATING instructions, both locally and remotely (the
    > latter failed ;-). But really, everything has to be reinstalled, ports
    > and the lot, so a new install is probably the best way...
    >

    That's not so bad. A reinstall means you can newfs your partitions as
    UFS2 filesystems, which wouldn't be the case if you upgraded 4.10 in-place.

    Cheers,

    Paul.

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