From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 15 16:40:23 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F04DB8FD for ; Thu, 15 Jan 2015 16:40:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from avasout07.plus.net (avasout07.plus.net [84.93.230.235]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "Bizanga Labs SMTP Client Certificate", Issuer "Bizanga Labs CA" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 816DABD4 for ; Thu, 15 Jan 2015 16:40:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from curlew.milibyte.co.uk ([84.92.153.232]) by avasout07 with smtp id gGd91p00B516WCc01GdAwC; Thu, 15 Jan 2015 16:37:11 +0000 X-CM-Score: 0.00 X-CNFS-Analysis: v=2.1 cv=Y852s3uN c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=lfSX4pPLp9EkufIcToJk/A==:117 a=lfSX4pPLp9EkufIcToJk/A==:17 a=D7rCoLxHAAAA:8 a=0Bzu9jTXAAAA:8 a=cYTjFNdXV1EA:10 a=kj9zAlcOel0A:10 a=YNv0rlydsVwA:10 a=y8RPGZrC7_0fmgwsayIA:9 a=CjuIK1q_8ugA:10 a=cL_Qm-hMzr4A:10 a=_vkSWGJfg2EA:10 a=Pcz-wRaOD_8A:10 Received: from curlew.lan ([192.168.1.13] helo=milibyte.co.uk) by curlew.milibyte.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.85) (envelope-from ) id 1YBnPx-0001JC-Ej; Thu, 15 Jan 2015 16:37:09 +0000 From: Mike Clarke To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 16:37:09 +0000 Message-ID: <2320530.UhQR8an0Kq@curlew.lan> User-Agent: KMail/4.14.2 (FreeBSD/10.1-RELEASE; KDE/4.14.2; amd64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <54B7E910.60206@webtent.org> References: <54B7E910.60206@webtent.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 192.168.1.13 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on curlew.lan X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Subject: Re: Upgrading a FreeBSD 7.1 server Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2 X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on curlew.milibyte.co.uk) Cc: Robert Fitzpatrick X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 16:40:24 -0000 On Thursday 15 Jan 2015 11:21:36 Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: > Is it possible to upgrade a FreeBSD 7.1 server, perhaps a step up > process to 8.4 first? We have a virtual server that we prefer not to > reinstall all packages. Packages are not compatible between major revision levels of the OS so you'll need to reinstall all your packages anyway whatever upgrade route you take. -- Mike Clarke