On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 01:28:41PM +0100, Andrea Brancatelli wrote: > Hello guys. > > I have a couple of ancient FreeBSD install that I have to bring into > this century (read either 10.4 or 11.1) :-) > > I'm talking about a FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p4 and a couple of FreeBSD > 9.3-RELEASE-p53. > > What upgrade strategy would you suggest? > > Direct jump into the future (8 -> 11)? Progressive steps (8 -> 9 -> 10 > -> 11)? Boiling water on the HDs? :-) > > Thanks, any suggestion in more than welcome.
The *supported* upgrade strategy is to upgrade to the latest version of your current branch, and jump from latest version to latest version. So 8.4 -> 9.3 -> 10.4 -> 11.1. (Note that you can stay at 10.4, it still is supported.) -- Mathieu Arnold
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