Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 16:23:16 -0800 From: "Jack L." <xxjack12xx@gmail.com> To: Erich Dollansky <erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com> 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: <CALeGphwKM5VonhQ1W43G9nsQ4WDXvGJRmWoBT9wynq_aqtKvEA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20160128074558.0a5c43d1@X220.alogt.com> References: <CANmv3=wF%2BsSfZLMCmuo2LYRv7EfpxL4QDWGn7EwjDs-k6VKOgQ@mail.gmail.com> <20160128074558.0a5c43d1@X220.alogt.com>
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On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 3:45 PM, Erich Dollansky <erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com> wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 27 Jan 2016 17:23:18 +0200 > 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? > > it is very simple. Make a backup, make a snapshot, download the latest > sources. Just be careful with mergemaster. I would do it by hand. > > If you can't compile the latest sources on the old machine, go to 10.0 > first. I do not think that you have to go through all releases between. > 10.0 might be the only obstacle. > > Erich I upgrade remotely all the time and it's worked fine for me every time.
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