Upgrade Mostly Complete
I've upgraded most of the machine. I only have mail and a few odds and ends to finish up. The upgrade was smooth, but for some ridiculously stupid reason, the FreeBSD 7.0 Release CD's wouldn't boot. They'd get hung at a section :
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Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/md0
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and there it would sit... forever... trying to mount a non-existant memory disk. I did a bit of digging around and found that somebody suggested 'removing the references to the floppy device in the boot loader'. This is the ridiculous part, because you can't do this for a CD-ROM boot device! So, I took it a step further, and disabled the floppy controller in BIOS, and bingo, the thing booted.
The rest of the install was almost exactly as it has been for the last 10 years. They REALLY need to visit this installer. Looking at this vs. the installers for Fedora and ubuntu really make FreeBSD look...well... antiquated.
I still love it, though.