Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:49:40 +0100 From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which version of FreeBSD is it? Message-ID: <hnripk$4fk$1@dough.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <3f1c29e71003170745u55a4fad2rd8c6f39d02fa968f@mail.gmail.com> References: <3f1c29e71003170656u1b932fd2v37f5062440653e3b@mail.gmail.com> <0b9982274818d454f23bc89ac74d30f5@asterix.area536.com> <3f1c29e71003170745u55a4fad2rd8c6f39d02fa968f@mail.gmail.com>
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=D0=90=D0=BD=D1=82=D0=BE=D0=BD =D0=9A=D0=BB=D0=B5=D1=81=D1=81 wrote: > That is what I suspected for. >=20 > What is the most safe way to upgrade it, remembering that this is produ= ction > server and I have to keep it working properly? >=20 > 6.2-RC1 -> 6.2 RELEASE -> 7.2 RELEASE -> 8.0 RELEASE, or somehow in thi= s > style? Depending on what your requirements for "production" might be and how=20 good know FreeBSD, this is a good enough path. The officially=20 recommended one also includes 6.4, but if the configuration is simple=20 enough (no fancy partitioning, no software RAID), you could simply skip=20 from 6.2RC1 all the way to 8.0 if you know what you are doing. Regardless, you will need to upgrade all of the installed ports (you can = do it at the end, no need to upgrade every time). In any case, don't do it remotely (without access to a physical=20 console), this is a long upgrade path for it to simply work the first=20 time. As others said, you can recover FreeBSD from practically any=20 disaster involving such an upgrade, but it won't necessarily be easy.
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