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Subject: Re: binary upgrade 6.2
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Alex Huth wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I am trying to upgrade a 6.2-RELEASE to 6.4-RELEASE, but `freebsd-update -r
> 6.4-RELEASE upgrade` is not available in this version. Can i upgrade this or
> do i have to go the old way? Unfortunately the `pkg_add -r cvsup` does not
> find the package for it.
>
> Thx
>
> Alex
>
>   

You will have to download a version of freebsd-update for 6.2.  There
are instructions here:

http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.3R/announce.html

under "FreeBSD  Update".

and also more details on C. Percival's blog:

http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2007-11-10-freebsd-minor-version-upgrade.html

Done this for 6.2 to 6.3 back in the day, and it worked fine. I believe
you will have no trouble going to 6.4 as well.

Just a quick note: Make sure you have enough space under /var. There is
a /var/freebsd-update directory there that holds a lot of data during
the upgrade, and later releases always bring in more data. If /var is
mostly full, symlink /var/freebsd-update somewhere in /usr. This has
saved me once.