Recommended Way To Update Old Systems To Current Versions

[Bret Busby]

On Tue, 9 May 2017, it was written

> Date: Wed, 10 May 2017 02:26:49
> To: Drew Tomlinson <drew at mykitchentable.net>
> Cc: "questions at freebsd.org" <questions at freebsd.org>
> Subject: Recommended Way To Update Old Systems To Current Versions
> 
>
> Drew Tomlinson writes:
>
>>  I’m running two boxes with FreeBSD and both have been neglected
>>  for years.
>
> 	To the degree this is literally true, I join others in
> recommending:
>
> 	1) make a list of ports, and port options.
> 	2) back _everything_ up
> 	3) scrub the disk
> 	4) install from scratch
>
> 	(2) and (3) can be combined by using a new disk, and keeping the
> old one as a permanant archive.
> 	Technically, it's more work.  But it avoids several minefields,
> and you going to have to (re)build the ports (which is the big time
> sink) anyway.
>
>
> 				Respectfully,
>
>
> 					Robert Huff
>
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Bret Busby
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West Australia
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