From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 16 08:38:47 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC0465D3 for ; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 08:38:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from "cyb."@gmx.net) Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net (mailout-de.gmx.net [213.165.64.22]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0935A8FC12 for ; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 08:38:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 16 Nov 2012 08:38:45 -0000 Received: from port-92-206-39-188.dynamic.qsc.de (EHLO CoreI5) [92.206.39.188] by mail.gmx.net (mp034) with SMTP; 16 Nov 2012 09:38:45 +0100 X-Authenticated: #4870692 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/hRB45OHTh6B9z07QV0BIKI0IdJWBZwWm9T4CRv2 6rDjgfYXcP35fb Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 09:38:43 +0100 From: Andreas Rudisch To: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) Subject: Re: WARNING: FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE is approaching its End-of-Life date. Message-Id: <20121116093843.1a09e12f79368efb4f52660f@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <86zk2is6i6.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> References: <20121115225711.3cd8b952c68e1bcc67d08977@d2ux.net> <20121115234653.704f5813534aedc596659f51@d2ux.net> <20121116002555.9b18ff13e9d56ac1af402853@gmx.net> <86zk2is6i6.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.3.0 (GTK+ 2.10.14; i686-pc-mingw32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 08:38:47 -0000 On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 17:04:17 -0800 merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) wrote: > >> Thanks for the clearification. One technical thing: is it possible, to upgrade > >> from FreeBSD 9.0 to 9.1 with the freebsd-update utility? > > Andreas> Yes, it is. > > Can I go from 8.3 directly to 9.1, or should I stop over at 9.0 first? Once 9.1 will be release soon, you will see something like that: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.0R/installation.html You should of course backup your data. I did an upgrade from 8.3 to 9.1-RC3 recently without problems. But keep in mind that you will have to recompile/ reinstall all installed ports. I usually delete all installed ports before the upgrade to a new major version. Andreas -- GnuPG key : 0x2A573565 | http://www.gnupg.org/howtos/de/ Fingerprint: 925D 2089 0BF9 8DE5 9166 33BB F0FD CD37 2A57 3565