Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 20:53:58 +0000 From: krad <kraduk@gmail.com> To: Terje Elde <terje@elde.net> Cc: Ross <basarevych@gmail.com>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Can I upgrade 9.1 straight to 10.2? Message-ID: <CALfReydHz%2Bxd1yDYV-oyw5LttH8%2BsJiKtRX4zY1PYK6S0HUh3g@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <40395A87-210D-4046-AEAB-B589DF155E59@elde.net> References: <CANmv3=wF%2BsSfZLMCmuo2LYRv7EfpxL4QDWGn7EwjDs-k6VKOgQ@mail.gmail.com> <40395A87-210D-4046-AEAB-B589DF155E59@elde.net>
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you should be able to, but if you want to be safe goto 9-stable 1st and then 10. Also make sure yo check UPDATING. Hopefully your are using pkg-ng so all you should have to do to fix the packages is pkg update -f On 27 January 2016 at 15:29, Terje Elde <terje@elde.net> wrote: > > > > On 27 Jan 2016, at 16:23, Ross <basarevych@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I have a server with an old installation of FreeBSD 9.1-STABLE. Can I > just > > download 10.2 sources and do installworld and installkernel there? > > > > Or should I install all the releases in between one by one? > > More often than not, you can just go directly, however; > > 1. Remember backup first > 2. Skim through /usr/src/UPDATING > 3. Follow the procedure about updating everything, in the same file. > > If possible, a fun option is to restore a backup to a spare machine (or > VM) and upgrade the backup. > > There's also ports to consider. I'll typically do a full ports rebuild > after jumping major versions. There's a similar /usr/ports/UPDATING. > > Terje > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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