Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 13:48:44 -0700 From: Kurt Buff <kurt.buff@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading from 6.2-RELEASE? Message-ID: <CADy1Ce4T4x7PcDZkOsCePfgMi3A=Wb8UOoBVi-F61N_0BEehhQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <D03DA89B-D9EE-472C-A68A-E7CC7EAC2F21@mac.com> References: <CADy1Ce6F5NSXYgORtrch8QUigkgaGX6yQCBUv0DMNK3JmqmroQ@mail.gmail.com> <E28CD8EB-6B8A-4D3F-AA9C-8F40B43DDF1D@mac.com> <CADy1Ce70%2BTUwwgZqiNKf277AoeWNX%2Bm6FbFYacas_6_9Uh=MJw@mail.gmail.com> <D03DA89B-D9EE-472C-A68A-E7CC7EAC2F21@mac.com>
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On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 12:49, Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> wrote: > On Oct 19, 2011, at 12:45 PM, Kurt Buff wrote: >>> You can do either. =C2=A0However, 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. =C2=A0They tend to not be conflict-free..= .. :-) Well, I *actually* asked for free technical assistance, but I know that the same maxim applies. ;-o > 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 more than a major release out of date. =C2=A0But, I was at pains to verif= y that I had complete backups and > time to rollback if needed, and I also made sure to rebuild all of the po= rts after doing the OS reinstall/upgrade. That is also definitely part of the plan... >> 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. Thanks for your help! Kurt
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