Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 23:40:58 -0600 From: "Galati, Michael" <mcg+fbsd@sulfegate.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: William Bulley <web@umich.edu> Subject: Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 390, Issue 3 Message-ID: <CAOicCEjcJiy=azOmF-1uV8-BgSGaQpJmPgc9_u9NtzjPzhU_LQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20111122215927.A943210656DB@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20111122215927.A943210656DB@hub.freebsd.org>
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> Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 13:56:23 -0500 > From: William Bulley <web@umich.edu> > Subject: Re: where to ask about problems with bsdinstall in 9.0RC2? > To: Frank Shute <frank@shute.org.uk> > Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> > Message-ID: <20111122185623.GA25594@itcom245.staff.itd.umich.edu> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=3Dus-ascii > > According to Frank Shute <frank@shute.org.uk> on Tue, 11/22/11 at 13:36: > > > > Can't help you with your bsdinstall woes but to upgrade from > > 8.2-STABLE to 9.0-RELEASE(currently RC2) branch you want to do a > > csup(1)/buildworld cycle. > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.htm= l > > > > You should use the tag: > > > > *default release=3Dcvs tag=3DRELENG_9_0 > > > > in your supfile. More details at: > > > > http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/freebsd_uptodate.html > > Thanks. =A0:) > > Perhaps you came into this thread late, but that was my first attempt. > But at that time, a few weeks ago, we were still at 9.0RC1 and my then > buildworld/installworld attempt failed during the kernel compile step. > > Now that 9.0RC2 is available, I reckon it is worth a try dealing with > the csup/buildworld/installworld process. =A0I hope this works this time. > If you still have trouble compiling, you could always do a fresh install off one of the 9.0-RC2 images on a spare machine (or on virtual machine; VirtualBox works well for this), and build the sources there. Once the make build{world,kernel} steps complete, copy (or export over NFS) /usr/{src,obj} to the machine to be upgraded, and do the usual make install{kernel,world} (and mergemaster) steps. I just did this just yesterday to bring a test box up from stable/8 to stable/9; worked like a charm. YMMV. Apparently freebsd-update(8) works for binary updates as well, but I've never used it (check the release announcement on freebsd-current or freebsd-stable from the 17th). Good luck! ^_^' - Mike
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