Re: Upgrading from 6.2-RELEASE?

2011-10-20 Thread Odhiambo Washington
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 21:55, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: I have gotten custody of an old machine running the aforementioned, and it's in production. I can take it down for a couple of hours if necessary, but would prefer to have it down as little as possible. What are my options

Upgrading from 6.2-RELEASE?

2011-10-19 Thread Kurt Buff
I have gotten custody of an old machine running the aforementioned, and it's in production. I can take it down for a couple of hours if necessary, but would prefer to have it down as little as possible. What are my options for getting it to a supported release - looking at the handbook it doesn't

Re: Upgrading from 6.2-RELEASE?

2011-10-19 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: I have gotten custody of an old machine running the aforementioned, and it's in production. I can take it down for a couple of hours if necessary, but would prefer to have it down as little as possible. What are my options

Re: Upgrading from 6.2-RELEASE?

2011-10-19 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Oct 19, 2011, at 11:55 AM, Kurt Buff wrote: I have gotten custody of an old machine running the aforementioned, and it's in production. I can take it down for a couple of hours if necessary, but would prefer to have it down as little as possible. The most straightforward solution would be

Re: Upgrading from 6.2-RELEASE?

2011-10-19 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 12:03, Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com wrote: On Oct 19, 2011, at 11:55 AM, Kurt Buff wrote: I have gotten custody of an old machine running the aforementioned, and it's in production. I can take it down for a couple of hours if necessary, but would prefer to have it down

Re: Upgrading from 6.2-RELEASE?

2011-10-19 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Oct 19, 2011, at 12:45 PM, Kurt Buff wrote: You can do either. However, it's probably easier to just download and burn the 7.4 or 8.2 image, and do an upgrade directly than it would be do upgrade via source to 7.0-RELEASE and then try freebsd-update. Gotta love conflicting answers from

Re: Upgrading from 6.2-RELEASE?

2011-10-19 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 12:49, Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com wrote: On Oct 19, 2011, at 12:45 PM, Kurt Buff wrote: You can do either.  However, it's probably easier to just download and burn the 7.4 or 8.2 image, and do an upgrade directly than it would be do upgrade via source to 7.0-RELEASE

Re: Upgrading from 6.2-RELEASE?

2011-10-19 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 19 Oct 2011, at 21:45, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 12:03, Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com wrote: On Oct 19, 2011, at 11:55 AM, Kurt Buff wrote: I have gotten custody of an old machine running the aforementioned, and it's in production. I can take it down for a