Comments on: Upgrade FreeBSD 7.x to 7.2 Stable Release

By: Luke Hollins

Luke Hollins — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:55:29 +0000

That upgrade method worked great, one thing that caught me after rebooting: something changed with alias IPs on similar networks – in 7.2 any alias IPs on an existing network need to have the netmask changed to 0xffffffff

By: jay

jay — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:20:56 +0000

i never reboot into single user mode when updating across minor versions. never lost a colo’d box either.

By: jim

jim — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:25:22 +0000

Of course the “single user mode” kills this for remote machines. Possibly useful link –
http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/upgrade/

By: adeknaga

adeknaga — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:00:25 +0000

how to update from 6.4 stable to 7.2 pls give me clue

By: adeknaga

adeknaga — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:59:43 +0000

thank’s work for me

By: khentiamentiu

khentiamentiu — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 01:54:56 +0000

I am trying to upgrade from 6.3 to 7.2. Is this too much of a jump to use a procedure like the above?

By: Bakhtiyor

Bakhtiyor — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 05:02:30 +0000

Hello everybody!
This guide help me to restore my FreeBSD machine. Many Thanks!

By: Richard Bejtlich

Richard Bejtlich — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 20:02:10 +0000

If you use tag=RELENG_7_2 you’re not running STABLE. You’re running the “release” or security branch for 7.2.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/cvs-tags.html

If you want to run STABLE you should set tag=RELENG_7 . Is that what you wanted instead?

By: SCSI

SCSI — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:54:32 +0000

Vary USEFULL !!! There are thousands of do this do that…this simple works…THANKS man.

By: Aigars

Aigars — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:15:58 +0000

Just be aware – this is a loooong process ;)

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 12 May 2009 10:10:48 +0000

You can jump from 3.x to 7.2 -> Read /usr/src/UPDATING

By: robert

robert — Tue, 05 May 2009 07:43:43 +0000

Hi, thanks for this guide.

Are you sure that you can upgrade from 7.0 to 7.2, like this? So, you can jump minor versions.
Or should I first go from 7.0 to 7.1 and after that from 7.1 to 7.2?