Hello
I have a FreeBSD 9.3 home server, that has been frozen for couple of years, but now I consider upgrading. I am still a bit reluctant to do that, since everything is running fine, just as I need, but eventually I should upgrade it anyway. I have upgraded couple of less important machines 11.2->12.0 and after some trouble everything seems working.
One thing I have not tested - is Virtualbox running on 12.0 in bridged mode? I have several virtual machines running on this machine.
Hardware is Intel Core i5-3570 CPU and Areca ARC-1220 RAID
Or should I wait for 12.1?
From what I understand, I should do all those upgrades in order:
9.3->10.3->10.4->11.2->12.0
https://www.freebsd.org/releases/10.3R/installation.html#upgrade-binary
https://www.freebsd.org/releases/10.4R/installation.html#upgrade-binary
https://www.freebsd.org/releases/11.2R/installation.html#upgrade-binary
https://www.freebsd.org/releases/12.0R/installation.html#upgrade-binary
I plan not to recompile ports in between, because that would take forever. Only after final upgrade to 12.0.
My plan is to upgrade and then freeze again for 2 years.
I have a FreeBSD 9.3 home server, that has been frozen for couple of years, but now I consider upgrading. I am still a bit reluctant to do that, since everything is running fine, just as I need, but eventually I should upgrade it anyway. I have upgraded couple of less important machines 11.2->12.0 and after some trouble everything seems working.
One thing I have not tested - is Virtualbox running on 12.0 in bridged mode? I have several virtual machines running on this machine.
Hardware is Intel Core i5-3570 CPU and Areca ARC-1220 RAID
Or should I wait for 12.1?
From what I understand, I should do all those upgrades in order:
9.3->10.3->10.4->11.2->12.0
https://www.freebsd.org/releases/10.3R/installation.html#upgrade-binary
https://www.freebsd.org/releases/10.4R/installation.html#upgrade-binary
https://www.freebsd.org/releases/11.2R/installation.html#upgrade-binary
https://www.freebsd.org/releases/12.0R/installation.html#upgrade-binary
I plan not to recompile ports in between, because that would take forever. Only after final upgrade to 12.0.
My plan is to upgrade and then freeze again for 2 years.