Upgrading from 6.2-RELEASE?

[Odhiambo Washington]

On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 21:55, Kurt Buff <kurt.buff at gmail.com> 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 can ignore everything you have been told so far and head to
http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/upgrade/ and follow the procedures there, one
at a time, and you will be able to update your box all the way to FreeBSD
9.x !!
I have used them before to upgrade several boxes. I prompted RSE to write
the 8.x->9.x procedure and I tested it step by step and I am currently
running 9.0-BETA3 on one of my boxes:

[wash at jaribu ~]$ uname -a
FreeBSD jaribu.kictanet.or.ke 9.0-BETA3 FreeBSD 9.0-BETA3 #0: Fri Oct  7
14:11:20 EAT 2011     root at jaribu.kictanet.or.ke:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GW
  i386

So what you need is to upgrade to RELENG_6 first, using csup/cvsup, then
start the procedures of 6.x-7.x, 7.x->8.x and if you want, 8.x->9.x

Good luck!


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