Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:23:37 +0100 From: Ricardo Jesus <ricardo.meb.jesus@gmail.com> To: James Wu <james@connection.ca> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading from 7.0 to 7.1 Message-ID: <49D0F209.20100@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <49D0E4E7.3050001@connection.ca> References: <49D0E4E7.3050001@connection.ca>
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James Wu wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm brand new to the list so forgive me if this has been answered. I > tried searching the archives and tried googling and didn't come up with > any results. > > I've been wanting to play with setfib multi-routing tables in 7.1, > however, we have a bunch of 7.0 machines. I thought I'd take a test > machine and upgrade it to 7.1. Everything went smoothly at first. I > compiled a custom 7.1 kernel and installed it just fine. Afterwards, I > ran: > > freebsd-update fetch > freebsd-update install > to upgrade to the latest 7.0 > > then: > freebsd-update upgrade -r 7.1-RELEASE > freebsd-update install -r 7.1-RELEASE > freebsd-update fetch > to upgrade to 7.1 > > now when I do a > uname -a, > I get FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-p3 which looks right to me > > The problem I'm running into though is that the setfib binary doesn't > seem to been added during the upgrade as I don't see it anywhere. I took > a fresh install of 7.1 and do see it /usr/sbin/, but it's not there for > the upgraded version of 7.1. > I guess at this point, I would like to do a reinstall of the sbin folder > if it is possible or somehow get a clean copy of the /usr/sbin/ folder > into my upgraded machine. Any hints on how to do that? > > James > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > The problem is you are mixing custom kernels with freebsd-update. freebsd-update only works for binary updates (kernel + userland). So either stick will freebsd-update or use csup and compile custom kernel and world.
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