Upgrade SO 6 to SO 8 serial number/licensing

Hello All,
I have the retail CD for SO 6. I would like to upgrade to SO 8 and have been told that would be a 'no charge' upgrade. I am a home user, not a business. I have installed the 'trial' version of SO 8 and have tried to upgrade to a 'full' version via the website but got a 'bad serial number' error. I have two possibilities for a serial number.
One, in the center of the CD, is: 33772-1-1
The other, underneath the Sun logo, is:
Part No. 705-0111-12
June 2002 Revision A
Your assistance would be much appreciated.
Bill Turner

dear friend,
its best you backup first my friend, but cronjobs will still be there when you upgrade, just as a precaution, backup your files. %crontab -l will show u the crontab list, just copy it if you dont want
to backup the whole system..
hope this helps friend..

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