Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 15:48:22 -0400 From: Steve Bertrand <iaccounts@ibctech.ca> To: Jean-Paul Natola <jnatola@familycareintl.org> Cc: John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrade from 5.5 to 5.5 Message-ID: <467AD606.6060401@ibctech.ca> In-Reply-To: <3A85D7EF44E1C744BF6434691F5659E9ED5EE1@www.fcimail.org> References: <3A85D7EF44E1C744BF6434691F5659E9ED5EE1@www.fcimail.org>
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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
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