On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 12:03, Chuck Swiger <[email protected]> wrote: > On Oct 19, 2011, at 11:55 AM, Kurt Buff 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. > > The most straightforward solution would be to build out and validate a new > system running FreeBSD-7.4 or 8.2, and drop it in place of the old box. If > all is good, decommission the old hardware.
I agree. I've already got a new VM started with 8.2. I'm trying to see if I can migrate the data to the new host, but it's not finished yet, and the old box's ports aren't functioning and can't be upgraded, so I'm stuck in a bit of a scramble. >> 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 can do either. However, it's probably easier to just download and burn > the 7.4 or 8.2 image, and do an upgrade directly than it would be do upgrade > via source to 7.0-RELEASE and then try freebsd-update. Gotta love conflicting answers from you and Adam I've got an ISO of 7.4. I think I'll do a dump of my data to a remote machine, do the update, and see what that gets me. Thanks, Kurt _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
