Ancient FreeBSD update path

[Mathieu Arnold]

On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 01:28:41PM +0100, Andrea Brancatelli wrote:
> Hello guys. 
> 
> I have a couple of ancient FreeBSD install that I have to bring into
> this century (read either 10.4 or 11.1) :-) 
> 
> I'm talking about a FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p4 and a couple of FreeBSD
> 9.3-RELEASE-p53. 
> 
> What upgrade strategy would you suggest? 
> 
> Direct jump into the future (8 -> 11)? Progressive steps (8 -> 9 -> 10
> -> 11)? Boiling water on the HDs? :-) 
> 
> Thanks, any suggestion in more than welcome.

The *supported* upgrade strategy is to upgrade to the latest version of
your current branch, and jump from latest version to latest version.  So
8.4 -> 9.3 -> 10.4 -> 11.1. (Note that you can stay at 10.4, it still is
supported.)

-- 
Mathieu Arnold
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