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Cc: "Bas v.d. Wiel" <bas@kompasmedia.nl>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Which version of FreeBSD is it?
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On 17/03/2010 14:45, =E1=CE=D4=CF=CE =EB=CC=C5=D3=D3 wrote:
> That is what I suspected for.
>
> What is the most safe way to upgrade it, remembering that this is produ=
ction
> server and I have to keep it working properly?
>
> 6.2-RC1 ->  6.2 RELEASE ->  7.2 RELEASE ->  8.0 RELEASE, or somehow in =
this
> style?
>
>
>
> 2010/3/17 Bas v.d. Wiel<bas@kompasmedia.nl>
>
>>
>> On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:56:20 +0300, =E1=CE=D4=CF=CE =EB=CC=C5=D3=D3
>> <antoniok.spb@gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> I have the server that's running FreeBSD for the last few years, but =
I
>> saw
>>> it only year ago and know nothing about when and how was installed
>> FreeBSD
>>> on it.
>>>
>>> # uname -a
>>> FreeBSD myhost.net 6.2-RC1 FreeBSD 6.2-RC1 #4: Fri Mar  5 01:37:03 MS=
K
>>> 2010     root@myhost.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MYKERN  amd64
>>>
>>> Is it RELEASE, STABLE or what?
>>
>> It is what it says it is: 6.2-RC1, meaning Release Candidate 1. That's=
 a
>> development/test version. If this is a production system it would be a=
 very
>> good idea to replace it with the current 8.0 RELEASE, which will give =
you
>> at least proper patch maintenance.
>>
>> Bas
>>
>
>
>
It should be 6.2-RC1 -> 6.2 -> 6.4 -> 7.2 -> 8.0

Dont' think freebsd-update supports 6.2 (AFAIR it supports from 6.4=20
onwards), so you probably will have to use csup.