--- On Thu, 9/9/10, Murray S. Kucherawy <m...@blackops.org> wrote: > From: Murray S. Kucherawy <m...@blackops.org> > Subject: freebsd-update question > To: questi...@freebsd.org > Date: Thursday, September 9, 2010, 1:40 PM > Hi, > > I'm reading > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/updating-upgrading-freebsdupdate.html > in preparation for an update of a 6.2-RELEASE machine in a > colocation faciilty. However, that page says 6.3 or > later is needed to do it via the freebsd-update(8) > mechanism. > > Are there any references for using freebsd-update for a 6.2 > installation, or am I looking at doing the update from > source as per > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html? > > Thanks, > -MSK > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" >
Depending on how the computer is used, to bring it up to 8.1 I'd backup data, config files, make a list of installed software and do a reinstall. The time it takes to build world, merg files and rebuild software a fresh install may be quicker than to try the jump from 6.2 to 8.1. YMMV _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
