From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 23 16:34:09 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 049D6106566C for ; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 16:34:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from web@umich.edu) Received: from hackers.mr.itd.umich.edu (smtp.mail.umich.edu [141.211.14.81]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B686C8FC17 for ; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 16:34:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: FROM itcom245.staff.itd.umich.edu (itcom245.staff.itd.umich.edu [141.213.135.249]) By hackers.mr.itd.umich.edu ID 4ECD207F.6D755.7085 ; Authuser web; 23 Nov 2011 11:34:07 EST Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 11:34:07 -0500 From: William Bulley To: "Galati, Michael" Message-ID: <20111123163407.GB29700@itcom245.staff.itd.umich.edu> Mail-Followup-To: "Galati, Michael" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 16:34:09 -0000 According to "Galati, Michael" on Wed, 11/23/11 at 00:40: > > 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! ^_^' Thanks. I am now happily running 9.0-PRERELEASE (!) and finally past all those weird bsdinstall issues. What a mess! Thanks for all the replies and help. I didn't use anything other than what I view as the "standard" (t/m) way to upgrade: csup-of-stable/buildworld/installworld which method has always worked in the past for me, but had trouble in the attempt to upgrade to a 9.x variant before it was ready for prime time. I would not normally have done this, but there were extenuating circumstances that required the attempt. Thanks again. :-) Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: web@umich.edu 72 characters width template ----------------------------------------->|