Upgrade old System

[Doug Hardie]

> On 11 November 2017, at 00:35, Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de> wrote:
> 
> 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 :-)

Unfortunately, re-installation is not possible.  Its just not accessible except via ssh. However, I found the problem.  DNS was not configured properly.  Now I am able to at least start the upgrade process.  I will jump to 9.3 first.  However, I have to go and fix the issue with the failed integrity check first.  Fortunately I saved the patch for that.  Now I just have to find it ;-)