On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 9:38 AM, Jeff Mitchell <skee...@skeleton.org> wrote:
> > Hello my friends, > > I've just noticed one of my beloved headless shell boxen is FreeBSD > 5.4; its a workhorse I've been neglecting far too long and I'd really like > to bring it up to 'current' (say fbsd 8.x). For awhile it was held back by > very specific applications I had to support, but I'm in the clear now. > > Given the age of the installation, I'm wondering what the > recommended upgrade path would be. > > The obvious options are.. > > 1 - upgrade step by step; go from fbsd 5.4 to 6.4 (say) to 7.2 (say) > to 8.0 > > 2 - one big-ass upgrade from 5.4 to 8 (*fear*) > > 3 - yank the drive, slap a giant new fat drive in there, do a full > fbsd 8.0 install, and then migration from old drive as needed > > I would suggest going in for 3 too, but then you would get better suggestions on this list. > > Aside -- whats the recommended way to stay on top of upgrades > anyway? It used to be a tortuous process back 5 years ago, but hopefully > things are much more streamlined now .. nightly 'make upgrade' ftw :) > > jeff > > Take a look at freebsd-update ( http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/updating-freebsdupdate.html). Amitabh Kant _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
