From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 23 05:41:30 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAC27106564A for ; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 05:41:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mcg@sulfegate.org) Received: from mail-gx0-f182.google.com (mail-gx0-f182.google.com [209.85.161.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 999948FC14 for ; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 05:41:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ggnk5 with SMTP id k5so1447716ggn.13 for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 21:41:30 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=sulfegate.org; s=google; h=mime-version:sender:x-originating-ip:in-reply-to:references:from :date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=F9uuBpWVDzr10zAmUC+SxRhvT6ujxgipdraNBBR0cyA=; b=Ambfck1g06jtHqA0qlCt8U3xSNpchfHj1a90utRjXQIg0lhXkOhBlKDAMNDesWfRiy pZrtUHLT9O2ndUwrW40psl4Z3/7qMC7eXdy7roo/dQ5hOaMWVRkqayrAVo4OswFCB5td 0lN5+L5rn/hPvjH6+mM+wsQ3FGuFyZQ7FFPAA= Received: by 10.68.16.166 with SMTP id h6mr4872528pbd.84.1322026889092; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 21:41:29 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: mcg@sulfegate.org Received: by 10.142.84.4 with HTTP; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 21:40:58 -0800 (PST) X-Originating-IP: [98.170.233.66] In-Reply-To: <20111122215927.A943210656DB@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20111122215927.A943210656DB@hub.freebsd.org> From: "Galati, Michael" Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 23:40:58 -0600 X-Google-Sender-Auth: aGvpXgtLwOlzueQmWwrcedCt7nE Message-ID: To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: William Bulley Subject: Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 390, Issue 3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 05:41:30 -0000 > Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 13:56:23 -0500 > From: William Bulley > Subject: Re: where to ask about problems with bsdinstall in 9.0RC2? > To: Frank Shute > Cc: FreeBSD Questions > Message-ID: <20111122185623.GA25594@itcom245.staff.itd.umich.edu> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=3Dus-ascii > > According to Frank Shute 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