From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 21 19:48:23 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6BA416A400 for ; Thu, 21 Jun 2007 19:48:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from iaccounts@ibctech.ca) Received: from pearl.ibctech.ca (pearl.ibctech.ca [208.70.104.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A11E13C465 for ; Thu, 21 Jun 2007 19:48:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from iaccounts@ibctech.ca) Received: (qmail 1607 invoked by uid 1002); 21 Jun 2007 19:48:22 -0000 Received: from iaccounts@ibctech.ca by pearl.ibctech.ca by uid 89 with qmail-scanner-1.22 (spamassassin: 2.64. Clear:RC:1(208.70.107.100):. Processed in 6.232353 secs); 21 Jun 2007 19:48:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.210?) (steve@ibctech.ca@208.70.107.100) by pearl.ibctech.ca with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 21 Jun 2007 19:48:15 -0000 Message-ID: <467AD606.6060401@ibctech.ca> Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 15:48:22 -0400 From: Steve Bertrand User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (Windows/20070604) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jean-Paul Natola References: <3A85D7EF44E1C744BF6434691F5659E9ED5EE1@www.fcimail.org> In-Reply-To: <3A85D7EF44E1C744BF6434691F5659E9ED5EE1@www.fcimail.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: John Nielsen , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrade from 5.5 to 5.5 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: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 19:48:23 -0000 Jean-Paul Natola wrote: > On Thursday 21 June 2007 03:18:32 pm Jean-Paul Natola wrote: >> I just finished ( what I thought was an upgrade) to 6.0 >> >> Only to find after I rebooted that I was still at 5.5 >> >> I did it via sysinstall- it said upgrade successful reboot - >> >> And when I did I was back at 5.5 >> >> Obviously , I missed something just not sure what/where >> >> Any help would be greatly appreciated > > Since you mention sysinstall I'm assuming you were attempting a binary > upgrade. Please provide more details, including (but not limited to): > > Did you boot from an install CD (or other media) or did you run sysinstall > directly from the running system? > > What media did you select from sysinstall? (FTP, CDROM, etc) > > Did you go in to the sysinstall options screen and change the version string > (or notice what it was)? > > If you did use a CD, where did it come from and what version is it? > (followup: > are you sure?) > > JN > > I upgraded from the running system, I used passive ftp , I selected minimal > install, and just chose a an ftp server to download from I just did this last week, and instead of selecting minimal install, I had to actually do 'custom', and then selected base and kernel. After that, and a reboot, I'm 6.2. Note: I used a 6.2 CD to do it. Steve