Upgrading from 6.2 to 8.0

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Hi everybody

I plan to upgrade my FreeBSD 6.2 servers to FreeBSD 8.0. I would like make a binary upgrade using the freebsd-update utility.

In the announcement http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2009-September/052024.htm it's specified :

The freebsd-update(8) utility supports binary upgrades of i386 and amd64
systems running earlier FreeBSD releases. Systems running 7.0-RELEASE,
7.1-RELEASE, 7.2-RELEASE, 8.0-BETA1, 8.0-BETA2, 8.0-BETA3, or 8.0-BETA4
can upgrade as follows:

# freebsd-update upgrade -r 8.0-RC1


Is it possible from FreeBSD 6.2 ? Does anyone have already make it ?

Thanks.

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[man=8]freebsd-update[/man says:


DESCRIPTION
The freebsd-update tool is used to fetch, install, and rollback binary
updates to the FreeBSD base system. Note that updates are only available
if they are being built for the FreeBSD release and architecture being
used; in particular, the FreeBSD Security Team only builds updates for
releases shipped in binary form by the FreeBSD Release Engineering Team,
e.g., FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE and FreeBSD 6.2-RC1, but not FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE
or FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT.


So 6.2-RELEASE should work. Whether a straight upgrade skipping FreeBSD 7 entirely will work I don't know, but you could always hop to 7.2-RELEASE first before going on to 8.0-RELEASE.