Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 14:01:31 -0500 From: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> To: Kurt Buff <kurt.buff@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading from 6.2-RELEASE? Message-ID: <CA%2BtpaK3D2ji2e1Dnn95O35QjKRH4kem1mXBWTdsULVX6xaiemg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CADy1Ce6F5NSXYgORtrch8QUigkgaGX6yQCBUv0DMNK3JmqmroQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <CADy1Ce6F5NSXYgORtrch8QUigkgaGX6yQCBUv0DMNK3JmqmroQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Kurt Buff <kurt.buff@gmail.com> wrote: > I have gotten custody of an old machine running the aforementioned, > and it's in production. I can take it down for a couple of hours if > necessary, but would prefer to have it down as little as possible. > > What are my options for getting it to a supported release - looking at > the handbook it doesn't appear the the freebsd-update utility will > work in this case, as it's not 6.3? Can I, for instance, boot from a > CD of a supported version and do an upgrade, or am I stuck doing a > download of sorce for 7.0-RELEASE, compiling that, and then an > freebsd-update to 7.4? > You're probably best off to go 6.2 -> 6_3 then do your freebsd-update stuff. I don't think the upgrading from CD works -- at least I've heard some horror stories. -- Adam Vande More
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