Re: Upgrade 8.4-STABLE to 14-STABLE

---> As for the argument that it's worth doing to learn how things work,
unless you expect to do something like this again, it's not clear that it's
a good use of one's time. Sure, it can be satisfying to make FreeBSD run on
an ipod or clock radio but how practical is the knowledge gained there? Not
many mechanics of my experience learn how to forge spanners and wrenches
that can be easily purchased.

I think that one can learn something from almost everything. Concerning
me,I have to say that I do what I like and I try to learn from that. I
don't care if I can take some shortcut or not. Regarding the specific
case,I'm almost excited to try and to learn how to upgrade an old FreeBSD
system to the newest one. It would be a jump from the past,when I didn't
use FreeBSD until today,to see how this OS evolved. This is the perfect
paradigm for the life of someone. It's so important to understand how I was
when I was young,and then adolescent and then man. Is important to
understand which factors and relations between the context and my inner
self have been involved in the growth.



On Sat, Jan 27, 2024 at 5:29 PM paul beard <paulbeard@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'll second this as well. Just did something similar, and it was far
> easier to simply build a new system and restore from backup or mount the
> old filesystems (I don't use ZFS or anything like that).
>
> As for the argument that it's worth doing to learn how things work, unless
> you expect to do something like this again, it's not clear that it's a good
> use of one's time. Sure, it can be satisfying to make FreeBSD run on an
> ipod or clock radio but how practical is the knowledge gained there? Not
> many mechanics of my experience learn how to forge spanners and wrenches
> that can be easily purchased.
>
> On Sat, Jan 27, 2024 at 5:46 AM Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Karl Vogel:
>>
>> >   On Sat, Jan 27, 2024 at 02:56:05AM -0500, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
>> >   > Is there a way to upgrade 8.4-STABLE to 14-STABLE, or even change
>> it to
>> >   > 14-RELEASE?
>> >
>> >     Seriously, if it's possible don't even try.  Make (and test) a good
>> >     backup, do a clean install from scratch, and restore your old stuff.
>> >
>> >     You don't want any part of a nightmare like that.
>>
>>         I'm with Karl (and others) on this.
>>         And it occurs to me it might not even work.  Exactly how old is
>> the hardware, and what does it have (or not have) that might cause
>> modern software to cough up a hairball?
>>
>>
>>                         Respectfully,
>>
>>
>>                                 Robert Huff
>>
>>
>>
>
> --
> Paul Beard / www.paulbeard.org/
>


-- 
Mario.