Upgrade old System

[Polytropon]

On Sat, 11 Nov 2017 00:16:35 -0800, Doug Hardie wrote:
> I have a remote host that has not been on or available for several years.  It just came back up and I need to upgrade it.
> 
> FreeBSD waldo.remotesupportservicesllc.com 8.2-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE-p3 #0: Tue Sep 27 18:07:27 UTC 2011     root at i386-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
> 
> 
> Freebsd-update does not work:
> 
> waldo# freebsd-update upgrade -r 11.1-RELEASE
> Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... none found.
> Fetching metadata signature for 8.2-RELEASE from update.FreeBSD.org... failed.
> No mirrors remaining, giving up.
> waldo# freebsd-update fetch
> Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... none found.
> Fetching metadata signature for 8.2-RELEASE from update.FreeBSD.org... failed.
> No mirrors remaining, giving up.
> 
> Is there a way to make that work?

For such a high delta (8.2 -> 11.1), I'd say that a re-installation
from scratch is perhaps the easier way to go. Depending on how this
particular system can be accessed, preparing tarballs could be an
option, or remote-booting an installation media. While freebsd-update
was already available on 8.2, it probably cannot directly update to
11.1 as there are way too many architectural changes on the way.



PS.
FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE #1: Wed Aug 24 10:25:44 CEST 2011 :-)




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