From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 19 19:45:25 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 73F321065670 for ; Wed, 19 Oct 2011 19:45:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kurt.buff@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ww0-f50.google.com (mail-ww0-f50.google.com [74.125.82.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08F1C8FC08 for ; Wed, 19 Oct 2011 19:45:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwi18 with SMTP id 18so3035091wwi.31 for ; Wed, 19 Oct 2011 12:45:24 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=OPUe3DOvdAyA+TupmFJMP+dwegvY1Mpd8T4XT20cNPo=; b=lP9VgHjH0FuejRAn83/ndMDr7GDjn3J9GQzio+/WiQjEl3mCOvBWJG53WjWXIvHtat lEl+K7ccL0T2kPUcKShGJWigMsdVK9Sxi/0pBMTGnX9/4I0JnG6ce/lDEqNQRurcWU4i MZXiPPof5HP0Bk+xQIUuRfa1XpwMrFpgN8ZFI= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.221.80 with SMTP id q58mr609440wep.36.1319053523941; Wed, 19 Oct 2011 12:45:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.26.213 with HTTP; Wed, 19 Oct 2011 12:45:23 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 12:45:23 -0700 Message-ID: From: Kurt Buff To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 19:45:25 -0000 On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 12:03, Chuck Swiger wrote: > 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 ne= w system running FreeBSD-7.4 or 8.2, and drop it in place of the old box. = =C2=A0If all is good, decommission the old hardware. I agree. I've already got a new VM started with 8.2. I'm trying to see if I can migrate the data to the new host, but it's not finished yet, and the old box's ports aren't functioning and can't be upgraded, so I'm stuck in a bit of a scramble. >> 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. =C2=A0However, it's probably easier to just download a= nd burn the 7.4 or 8.2 image, and do an upgrade directly than it would be d= o upgrade via source to 7.0-RELEASE and then try freebsd-update. Gotta love conflicting answers from you and Adam I've got an ISO of 7.4. I think I'll do a dump of my data to a remote machine, do the update, and see what that gets me. Thanks, Kurt