From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 19 19:50:02 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 6FB4C1065670 for ; Wed, 19 Oct 2011 19:50:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from asmtpout025.mac.com (asmtpout025.mac.com [17.148.16.100]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F5EE8FC0C for ; Wed, 19 Oct 2011 19:50:02 +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 asmtp025.mac.com (Oracle Communications Messaging Server 7u4-23.01 (7.0.4.23.0) 64bit (built Aug 10 2011)) with ESMTPSA id <0LTB0011AWEPX880@asmtp025.mac.com> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 19 Oct 2011 12:49:38 -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=2 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=6.0.2-1012030000 definitions=main-1110190239 From: Chuck Swiger In-reply-to: Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 12:49:37 -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 19:50:02 -0000 On Oct 19, 2011, at 12:45 PM, Kurt Buff wrote: >> 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. > > Gotta love conflicting answers from you and Adam Well, you did ask for opinions. They tend to not be conflict-free.... :-) I haven't had problems doing a reinstall from a new ISO image to update a FreeBSD box which was more than a major release out of date. But, I was at pains to verify that I had complete backups and time to rollback if needed, and I also made sure to rebuild all of the ports after doing the OS reinstall/upgrade. > 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. OK. Regards, -- -Chuck