Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2015 17:33:59 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com> To: Gregory Orange <gregory.orange@calorieking.com> Cc: User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Upgrade from 8.4 to 10.2 Message-ID: <CAAdA2WO=O4750Gem1GTnkHm1LOiefCVGgaYUdaWERiqBaP80Xw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <566E367B.70604@calorieking.com> References: <CAA3eX7axiqVnu9XunE=zyzGOLpWOqEyB%2BBFL%2B_xTk7q5nWBSwA@mail.gmail.com> <566E367B.70604@calorieking.com>
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On 14 December 2015 at 06:24, Gregory Orange <gregory.orange@calorieking.com > wrote: > On 12/12/15 19:50, Peter Harrison via freebsd-questions wrote: > >> I have a server I want to upgrade from 8.4-R to 10.2 using a binary >> upgrade. >> What's the preferred way of doing that? Ie. Should I jump to 9 first? And >> can I safely do it remotely or do I need to be on front of the console? >> > > FWIW I successfully upgraded over a dozen FreeBSD 8.4 amd64 machines > straight to 10.1 earlier this year, bypassing 9.x all together. One of the > machines had bad enough problems to require a reinstall, but it was very > old hardware and I didn't have physical access to it so I never got to the > root cause. In the end we chucked it and got a new machine anyway. > > I don't want to negate the advice of going to 9 first - I'm just sharing > my experience. > > HTH, > Greg. Greg, What procedure did you use? I have used the following before -> http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/upgrade/ to do 7->8, 8->9 but not upto 10. -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 "I can't hear you -- I'm using the scrambler."
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