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From: Nate Puri <natepuri@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Upgrading a system
To: James Guse <guse1@llnl.gov>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
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cvsup -g -L 2 /usr/share/examples/cvsup/stable-supfile
cd /usr/src
make world

that's really all there is to it.  you should also
read the handbook http://www.freebsd.org/handbook

FreeBSD's on-line documentation is second to none.
-nate

--- James Guse <guse1@llnl.gov> wrote:
> I'm a little confused about the recommended way to
> upgrade a FreeBSD 
> system.  I want to avoid anything to do with
> sources/CVS, etc; I'm looking 
> for straightforward upgrades of bastion, production
> systems.  I've found 
> the following incomplete information:
> 
> FAQ 1.31 says:
> Use "binary snapshots" of -STABLE.  (Ok, I
> understand how to install a new 
> system from the snapshots, but upgrading?)
> 
> 4.2-...-STABLE UPGRADE.TXT says:
> These notes assume that you are using the version of
> sysinstall supplied 
> with the version of FreeBSD to which you intend to
> upgrade. Using a 
> mismatched version of sysinstall is almost
> guaranteed to cause problems and 
> has been known to leave systems in an unusable
> state. The most commonly 
> made mistake in this regard is the use of an old
> copy of /stand/sysinstall 
> from an existing installation to upgrade to a newer
> version of FreeBSD. 
> This is NOT recommended.
> 
> (Ok, so how to I get the correct /stand/sysinstall
> for the version I want 
> to upgrade to before I upgrade the system?  Does
> /stand come in the 'bin' 
> distribution?)
> 
> So I took a chance and upgraded a 4.2-RELEASE system
> to 
> 4.2-20010411-STABLE.  Everything worked fine except
> for a kernel naming 
> problem:  UPGRADE.TXT says that the kernel will be
> replaced with a generic 
> kernel.  Fine, but it doesn't say that you have to
> 'mv kernel.GENERIC 
> kernel' so that /boot/defaults/loader.conf will
> actually boot the system.
> 
> Once it was all done, it appeared that nothing in
> /stand was 
> updated.  Further, when I copied the contents of
> /stand (actually a nest of 
> hard links) to another system to perform the
> upgrade, it seemed to think it 
> was the version that that other system was installed
> as.
> 
> So, unless I've just missed an obvious pointer to
> the simple explanation of 
> how to do an upgrade, perhaps this is a good item
> for the FAQ.
> 
> Jimmy
> 
> 
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