On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Kurt Buff <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have gotten custody of an old machine running the aforementioned, > and it's in production. I can take it down for a couple of hours if > necessary, but would prefer to have it down as little as possible. > > What are my options for getting it to a supported release - looking at > the handbook it doesn't appear the the freebsd-update utility will > work in this case, as it's not 6.3? Can I, for instance, boot from a > CD of a supported version and do an upgrade, or am I stuck doing a > download of sorce for 7.0-RELEASE, compiling that, and then an > freebsd-update to 7.4? > You're probably best off to go 6.2 -> 6_3 then do your freebsd-update stuff. I don't think the upgrading from CD works -- at least I've heard some horror stories. -- Adam Vande More _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
