Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 19:02:58 +0100 From: Peter Wood <peter@alastria.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Installing 6.2 from a 5.3 mini install CD... Message-ID: <467182D2.6050303@alastria.net>
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Good Afternoon, Does anyone have any knowledge, good or bad, about installing 6.2-RELEASE from a 5.3-RELEASE mini install CD? The story is that I have a 5.3-RELEASE CD in my colo server in London (which I have BIOS serial support w/ terminal server), and I know in the installer you can specify the release name. I've tried to do this in VMware, I did a custom install, set the release name to 6.2-RELEASE, installed only base. However as FreeBSD has enabled an option for a SMP kernel, it didn't install a kernel and thus failed to boot. I was contimplating if I could install the kernel as a package or a non named distribution. Is there anything I can do, or do I have to send a CD down and hope my provider doesn't charge me to much? This'll teach me for not buying a CD-RW when I buy a new server... "What will I need one of them for, it's a colo server.". Cheers, Peter.
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