From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 19 19:03:40 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 912D2106566B for ; Wed, 19 Oct 2011 19:03:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from asmtpout024.mac.com (asmtpout024.mac.com [17.148.16.99]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 792AF8FC08 for ; Wed, 19 Oct 2011 19:03:40 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Received: from cswiger1.apple.com ([17.209.4.71]) by asmtp024.mac.com (Oracle Communications Messaging Server 7u4-23.01 (7.0.4.23.0) 64bit (built Aug 10 2011)) with ESMTPSA id <0LTB002RNUA3DM80@asmtp024.mac.com> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 19 Oct 2011 12:03:40 -0700 (PDT) X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:5.4.6813,1.0.211,0.0.0000 definitions=2011-10-19_07:2011-10-19, 2011-10-19, 1970-01-01 signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 suspectscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=6.0.2-1012030000 definitions=main-1110190226 From: Chuck Swiger In-reply-to: Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 12:03:39 -0700 Message-id: References: To: Kurt Buff X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1084) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading from 6.2-RELEASE? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 19:03:40 -0000 On Oct 19, 2011, at 11:55 AM, Kurt Buff 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. The most straightforward solution would be to build out and validate a new system running FreeBSD-7.4 or 8.2, and drop it in place of the old box. If all is good, decommission the old hardware. > 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 can do either. However, it's probably easier to just download and burn the 7.4 or 8.2 image, and do an upgrade directly than it would be do upgrade via source to 7.0-RELEASE and then try freebsd-update. Regards, -- -Chuck