Re: Upgrading very old installation

2011-07-16 Thread krad
On 15 July 2011 22:12, Balázs Mátéffy wrote: > On 15 July 2011 22:46, Roland Smith wrote: > > > On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 08:20:52AM -0400, Jaime Kikpole wrote: > > > I'm running a FreeBSD 6.x server that hasn't been updated in about 1.5 > > years. > > > > > > atlas:~>uname -mprs > > > FreeBSD 6.4

Re: Upgrading very old installation

2011-07-15 Thread Balázs Mátéffy
On 15 July 2011 22:46, Roland Smith wrote: > On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 08:20:52AM -0400, Jaime Kikpole wrote: > > I'm running a FreeBSD 6.x server that hasn't been updated in about 1.5 > years. > > > > atlas:~>uname -mprs > > FreeBSD 6.4-RELEASE-p8 i386 i386 > > > I've been using the cvsup/make met

Re: Upgrading very old installation

2011-07-15 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 08:20:52AM -0400, Jaime Kikpole wrote: > I'm running a FreeBSD 6.x server that hasn't been updated in about 1.5 years. > > atlas:~>uname -mprs > FreeBSD 6.4-RELEASE-p8 i386 i386 > I've been using the cvsup/make method of upgrades for years and only > used freebsd-upgrade o

Re: Upgrading very old installation

2011-07-15 Thread krad
On 15 July 2011 16:25, Steven Friedrich wrote: > On 7/15/2011 9:38 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: > >> On 15/07/2011 13:20, Jaime Kikpole wrote: >> >>> I'm running a FreeBSD 6.x server that hasn't been updated in about 1.5 >>> years. >>> >>> atlas:~>uname -mprs >>> FreeBSD 6.4-RELEASE-p8 i386 i386 >>>

Re: Upgrading very old installation

2011-07-15 Thread Steven Friedrich
On 7/15/2011 9:38 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 15/07/2011 13:20, Jaime Kikpole wrote: I'm running a FreeBSD 6.x server that hasn't been updated in about 1.5 years. atlas:~>uname -mprs FreeBSD 6.4-RELEASE-p8 i386 i386 What is the recommended way to upgrade it to something current? Should I upgr

Upgrading very old installation

2011-07-15 Thread Robert Huff
Jaime Kikpole writes: > I'm running a FreeBSD 6.x server that hasn't been updated in > about 1.5 years. > > atlas:~>uname -mprs > FreeBSD 6.4-RELEASE-p8 i386 i386 > > What is the recommended way to upgrade it to something current? > Should I upgrade it to the most recent 6.x and then to

Re: Upgrading very old installation

2011-07-15 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 15/07/2011 13:20, Jaime Kikpole wrote: > I'm running a FreeBSD 6.x server that hasn't been updated in about 1.5 years. > > atlas:~>uname -mprs > FreeBSD 6.4-RELEASE-p8 i386 i386 > > What is the recommended way to upgrade it to something current? > Should I upgrade it to the most recent 6.x and

Upgrading very old installation

2011-07-15 Thread Jaime Kikpole
I'm running a FreeBSD 6.x server that hasn't been updated in about 1.5 years. atlas:~>uname -mprs FreeBSD 6.4-RELEASE-p8 i386 i386 What is the recommended way to upgrade it to something current? Should I upgrade it to the most recent 6.x and then to 7.x and then to 8.x? Or should I use a more di