How to upgrade an exist freebsd to freebsd6.2 ?

Eric eric at mikestammer.com
Sat Jan 27 14:48:57 UTC 2007


Dak Ghatikachalam wrote:
>
>
> On 1/26/07, *Eric* <heli at mikestammer.com 
> <mailto:heli at mikestammer.com>> wrote:
>
>     Dak Ghatikachalam wrote:
>     >
>     >
>     > On 1/26/07, *Eric* <heli at mikestammer.com
>     <mailto:heli at mikestammer.com>
>     > <mailto:heli at mikestammer.com <mailto:heli at mikestammer.com>>> wrote:
>     >
>     >     Halid Faith wrote:
>     >     > I have a machine 6.0-RELEASE. How do I upgrade it to
>     Freebsd6.2
>     >     without any problem?
>     >     > Could you advise a useful site about that ?
>     >     > After upgrade, May a problem like cannot login the system
>     be ?
>     >     >
>     >     >
>     >     people seem to like my instruction set:
>     >
>     >     http://mikestammer.com/dokuwiki/bsd:updateos
>     >
>     >
>     >     no issues reported yet! =)
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     > I could not access ?
>     >
>     >
>     >   Permission Denied
>     >
>     > Sorry, you don't have enough rights to continue. Perhaps you
>     forgot to
>     > login?
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     sorry about that, give it a whirl now
>
>
> Hi
>
> I browsed the page understood most part  , I happened  to read 
> theupgrade chapter  in release notes, but I remember someone on this 
> list also mentioned to read from handbook, could not find that
>
> BTW: Does this upgrade procedure apply and can it be used   to go from 
> 6.1 to 6.2 freeBSD  too ?
>
> Thanks
> DAk
yes, it will work from any version of 6 and up. It should work fine in 7 
unless the technique changes for some reason.

Hope it helps you! =)

Eric


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