From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Wed Jan 27 20:54:00 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0443A6F7EE for ; Wed, 27 Jan 2016 20:54:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kraduk@gmail.com) Received: from mail-wm0-x22d.google.com (mail-wm0-x22d.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c09::22d]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7F6C01EC2 for ; Wed, 27 Jan 2016 20:54:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kraduk@gmail.com) Received: by mail-wm0-x22d.google.com with SMTP id l66so21385929wml.0 for ; Wed, 27 Jan 2016 12:54:00 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=nOtiASLHLCnRoeEiiDUmrU+sQHXVwNVm+qTG3xGv820=; b=wiPWAaakWpm26b/5WioAM21lvq+fw7seOyOI+5jz3az1fzb62BAhZ58DDmNTn7AXDo 8RsfX+/5IAdKNid2HbvyrcpSlwwBq6gtPDp5WGkpaxLlty7xYn/ZPpzigEDT/BYRxO1T 9V6gE/xl1PWBgW53P2aujTUu1lKdhb13EDX8YXkKnoWhXL/HD4uTwZBhAvxKc8csLAHV WRnU0vxJusWZaP2735nIMLc0hqqrf6OJ0rjqqm4o0YJZIOXRmNmrsFeErl8DeKW+UTKB AmSqtcI0xfPt2ugNRzW8KfZzW0GHbKJEKDJGP++TDVGAROJpX9mfD8CiXjIq9CXDjV6C zfDg== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=nOtiASLHLCnRoeEiiDUmrU+sQHXVwNVm+qTG3xGv820=; b=E1pR3LbMOBikTDElKy7l7OBGAYrXOa9I8zdoLolL4pDXjyXYu/FRRjiFURuAsuMqGw bDkJvmMojWI/B2lzpIJKVqD+kDtWXIH+7f76t+SbwK32tBSZhrkETK6Jy3wsChpCANRc Vrmm3/qYR3FNk9VOfGwdaAmTs9q6i6WZvBlc7HwJRq+h3NY83K8BrFhnFJyKH6Ht3YM6 rP9brvLXhyQsZtx5UyytDi/p8hXtNTLExj9Ac8dAMaV13oesbXdU4ImiBlIuDvDh56Kq UX7FDlD6jaEffS3RjhBIG2tdCqCjumFSW6WLxTagz8055ZZ2m3snDsD4MSBaZQuRqUaG l0Dg== X-Gm-Message-State: AG10YOQ3K6Le983vyZ/9Gs8gdhix/o4vws2fC3LSxR5HGJKjDKF/Rfk7VCu22DlIKF+QA2NEymHvf+i7giZtbw== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.194.117.5 with SMTP id ka5mr31977217wjb.20.1453928038839; Wed, 27 Jan 2016 12:53:58 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.28.55.132 with HTTP; Wed, 27 Jan 2016 12:53:58 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <40395A87-210D-4046-AEAB-B589DF155E59@elde.net> References: <40395A87-210D-4046-AEAB-B589DF155E59@elde.net> Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 20:53:58 +0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Can I upgrade 9.1 straight to 10.2? From: krad To: Terje Elde Cc: Ross , "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.20 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 20:54:01 -0000 you should be able to, but if you want to be safe goto 9-stable 1st and then 10. Also make sure yo check UPDATING. Hopefully your are using pkg-ng so all you should have to do to fix the packages is pkg update -f On 27 January 2016 at 15:29, Terje Elde wrote: > > > > On 27 Jan 2016, at 16:23, Ross wrote: > > > > I have a server with an old installation of FreeBSD 9.1-STABLE. Can I > just > > download 10.2 sources and do installworld and installkernel there? > > > > Or should I install all the releases in between one by one? > > More often than not, you can just go directly, however; > > 1. Remember backup first > 2. Skim through /usr/src/UPDATING > 3. Follow the procedure about updating everything, in the same file. > > If possible, a fun option is to restore a backup to a spare machine (or > VM) and upgrade the backup. > > There's also ports to consider. I'll typically do a full ports rebuild > after jumping major versions. There's a similar /usr/ports/UPDATING. > > Terje > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >