Binary upgrade from 8.4 to 10.1

[John Howie]

Hi Paul,

The FreeBSD Handbook is your friend: https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/updating-upgrading.html.

Regards,

John





On 8/3/15, 2:17 PM, "owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org on behalf of Paul Schmehl" <owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org on behalf of pschmehl_lists at tx.rr.com> wrote:

>I am responsible for sysadmin work on two internet-facing servers - 
>www.stovebolt.com and mail.stovebolt.com.  Both of these servers are 
>production servers, and we have no test or devel servers.  (Small hobby 
>website with very little money.)
>
>I want to upgrade from FreeBSD 8.4 RElEASE to FreeBSD 10.1 RELEASE using 
>FreeBSD update.
>
>I've done this before, and I don't think I'll run into issues with the 
>binary update, but I want to make sure I do everything right and in the 
>right order.
>
>Is there a document that describes this process with detailed steps that 
>doesn't leave anything out?
>
>I did find this: 
><http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2014-November/081088.html>
>
>But I'm wondering if there is an official document that describes every 
>step of the process.
>
>Paul Schmehl, Senior Infosec Analyst
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