Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 17:51:41 -0800 From: "Jack L." <xxjack12xx@gmail.com> To: Erich Dollansky <erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com> Cc: Ross <basarevych@gmail.com>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Can I upgrade 9.1 straight to 10.2? Message-ID: <CALeGphxuQUus8=2MHHT4K2Wq6yjgeOVgLD1UKpE0hs9%2BAug4WA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20160128085803.30621c2a@X220.alogt.com> References: <CANmv3=wF%2BsSfZLMCmuo2LYRv7EfpxL4QDWGn7EwjDs-k6VKOgQ@mail.gmail.com> <20160128074558.0a5c43d1@X220.alogt.com> <CALeGphwKM5VonhQ1W43G9nsQ4WDXvGJRmWoBT9wynq_aqtKvEA@mail.gmail.com> <20160128085803.30621c2a@X220.alogt.com>
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On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 4:58 PM, Erich Dollansky <erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com> wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 27 Jan 2016 16:23:16 -0800 > "Jack L." <xxjack12xx@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 3:45 PM, Erich Dollansky >> <erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com> wrote: >> > >> > On Wed, 27 Jan 2016 17:23:18 +0200 >> > Ross <basarevych@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> >> I have a server with an old installation of FreeBSD 9.1-STABLE. >> >> Can I just download 10.2 sources and do installworld and >> >> installkernel there? >> >> >> >> Or should I install all the releases in between one by one? >> > >> > it is very simple. Make a backup, make a snapshot, download the >> > latest sources. Just be careful with mergemaster. I would do it by >> > hand. >> > >> > If you can't compile the latest sources on the old machine, go to >> > 10.0 first. I do not think that you have to go through all releases >> > between. 10.0 might be the only obstacle. >> > >> > Erich >> >> I upgrade remotely all the time and it's worked fine for me every >> time. > > of course, if you do it all the time. His problem might be the new > compiler in 10. I see his problem randomly when upgrading older > machines. As my standard procedure is then to go by the xx.0 releases > until I am there, I never tried to figure out which revision might has > caused the problem. > > Erich I upgraded my 9.2-STABLE machine to 10.1-STABLE by doing a make buildworld&&make kernel&&make installworld procedure and didn't run into any issues.
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