From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sun Dec 27 14:34:41 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC07EA4DAF1 for ; Sun, 27 Dec 2015 14:34:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from odhiambo@gmail.com) Received: from mail-wm0-x22b.google.com (mail-wm0-x22b.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c09::22b]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4D02D1AAD for ; Sun, 27 Dec 2015 14:34:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from odhiambo@gmail.com) Received: by mail-wm0-x22b.google.com with SMTP id l126so238729690wml.1 for ; Sun, 27 Dec 2015 06:34:41 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; bh=0RyjgjvIOLPzZ8olfADjRlAsG9woJZUOrnWLs4WxQfM=; b=ihP/hchL8ke7CWopg/KwvtBzlJOYoKhjn1bmmRATeh3TY2wzHE/rccnHWVI9TqdxEH cXBee6y4bBSO9L3Pg4YdJuPh7VDEQQZbLBFO5Vs09YaTxjIdnf4+hcB1/+BvK9we//hU rymBj/h4y1DHj6nXMUcm8nYKCWOTWt4JLNoZHvNVwASI88sLG+4lgnpPxw/JlGjiWmFZ F7ZIG5v9jGOjSipBmlNLRYz66VInLNK9fXvhSpuhX24caUUN68JlmXwx/lvQLqKNdFld UpYxiaH1DcV3p3doHXIfwY+PI+ZibRCR8PxIQZ6stAH5BKOcVQWszdL+AilDT2sxJumU FKWQ== X-Received: by 10.28.49.3 with SMTP id x3mr56560718wmx.53.1451226879009; Sun, 27 Dec 2015 06:34:39 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.194.184.172 with HTTP; Sun, 27 Dec 2015 06:33:59 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <566E367B.70604@calorieking.com> References: <566E367B.70604@calorieking.com> From: Odhiambo Washington Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2015 17:33:59 +0300 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Upgrade from 8.4 to 10.2 To: Gregory Orange Cc: User Questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.20 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2015 14:34:41 -0000 On 14 December 2015 at 06:24, Gregory Orange 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."