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Date:      Sat, 11 Nov 2017 00:16:35 -0800
From:      Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org>
To:        "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Upgrade old System
Message-ID:  <BB1D7DC1-A988-4911-97E0-82C95B0A77C2@mail.sermon-archive.info>

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I have a remote host that has not been on or available for several =
years.  It just came back up and I need to upgrade it.

FreeBSD waldo.remotesupportservicesllc.com 8.2-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD =
8.2-RELEASE-p3 #0: Tue Sep 27 18:07:27 UTC 2011     =
root@i386-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386


Freebsd-update does not work:

waldo# freebsd-update upgrade -r 11.1-RELEASE
Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... none found.
Fetching metadata signature for 8.2-RELEASE from update.FreeBSD.org... =
failed.
No mirrors remaining, giving up.
waldo# freebsd-update fetch
Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... none found.
Fetching metadata signature for 8.2-RELEASE from update.FreeBSD.org... =
failed.
No mirrors remaining, giving up.

Is there a way to make that work?

-- Doug




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