You don't *need* to newfs and reinstall everything, you can also just fetch the binaries from FreeBSD ftp or CD-ROM, extract those (overwriting the current system), update /usr/src, and run make delete-old delete-old-libs
Or you can just use make world...
In any case, "Complete reinstalls" are only needed with "that other OS".
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