8.0-RELEASE completed...

[Gary Kline]

On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 09:22:01PM +0100, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote:
> Roland Smith <rsmith at xs4all.nl> writes:
> > It is possible, but not easy. Upgrading from 7.x to 8.0 on the same
> > architecture is not that hard IMHO. Upgrading from i386 to amd64 on the same
> > release is doable but tricky; you need a spare root partition to install the
> > amd64 binaries.
> 
> Not at all, just make a backup of /etc, extract the amd64 dist on top of
> your existing system, then restore whichever parts of /etc got clobbered.
> 
> DES
> -- 
> Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des at des.no


	Thanks, gentlemen.  Mostly, my post was just a pondering;
	wondering if it might be better to re-do stuff now,  But then
	my new server still isn't finished and probably won't be until
	next week.  So best to stick with what I'm familar with.

	gary

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