From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Fri Feb 26 18:43:21 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 64759AB49BD for ; Fri, 26 Feb 2016 18:43:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (mailman.ysv.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::50:5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EBCECE for ; Fri, 26 Feb 2016 18:43:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) id 4C111AB49BB; Fri, 26 Feb 2016 18:43:21 +0000 (UTC) Delivered-To: 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 4BA86AB49BA for ; Fri, 26 Feb 2016 18:43:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from mx01.qsc.de (mx01.qsc.de [213.148.129.14]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 14A28CD for ; Fri, 26 Feb 2016 18:43:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from r56.edvax.de (port-92-195-20-226.dynamic.qsc.de [92.195.20.226]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx01.qsc.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 24B203CE71; Fri, 26 Feb 2016 19:43:11 +0100 (CET) Received: from r56.edvax.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by r56.edvax.de (8.14.5/8.14.5) with SMTP id u1QIhBlM002149; Fri, 26 Feb 2016 19:43:11 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2016 19:43:10 +0100 From: Polytropon To: sathiyaraj v Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: upgrade from 4.2 to 6.2 Message-Id: <20160226194310.da698e3e.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: References: <20160226161309.85976ddc.freebsd@edvax.de> <20160226165556.16940e82.freebsd@edvax.de> <20160226181832.86d5c3e4.freebsd@edvax.de> Reply-To: Polytropon Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.1.1 (GTK+ 2.24.5; i386-portbld-freebsd8.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: Fri, 26 Feb 2016 18:43:21 -0000 On Fri, 26 Feb 2016 22:58:31 +0530, sathiyaraj v wrote: > Thanks Polytropon. I don't have any specific reason not to upgrade latest > one. I thought it may require my older driver support need to be aligned to > support these new version. That may be a valid reason. Check the documentation of the driver with the current FreeBSD version and see if your devices are still listed as being supported. Additionally, there is also a memstick image (for USB sticks) which you can try to boot from. Disc 1 can also be used to check things before you start overwriting your current installtion. The images can be found here: http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/10.2/ So if you _can_, use a supported version of FreeBSD (10.2 is suggested) to reduce upcoming trouble. Use an older version only if needed. > By the way I am not able to find older release code like 4.2,4.5 etc... in > the FTP repository. Is it still accessible? If so Can you please tell me > where it is? Yes, those are located in the ftp archive (as they are not considered supported releases): http://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/i386/ -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...