From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 14 18:22:47 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 9EC4616A468 for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2007 18:22:47 +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 3A28F13C4C6 for ; Thu, 14 Jun 2007 18:22:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from iaccounts@ibctech.ca) Received: (qmail 62082 invoked by uid 1002); 14 Jun 2007 18:22:46 -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 6.500706 secs); 14 Jun 2007 18:22:46 -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; 14 Jun 2007 18:22:39 -0000 Message-ID: <467186FB.9030608@ibctech.ca> Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 14:20:43 -0400 From: Steve Bertrand User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (Windows/20070326) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Wood References: <467182D2.6050303@alastria.net> In-Reply-To: <467182D2.6050303@alastria.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing 6.2 from a 5.3 mini install CD... 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, 14 Jun 2007 18:22:47 -0000 Peter Wood wrote: > Good Afternoon, > > Does anyone have any knowledge, good or bad, about installing > 6.2-RELEASE from a 5.3-RELEASE mini install CD? > > The story is that I have a 5.3-RELEASE CD in my colo server in London > (which I have BIOS serial support w/ terminal server), and I know in the > installer you can specify the release name. > > I've tried to do this in VMware, I did a custom install, set the release > name to 6.2-RELEASE, installed only base. However as FreeBSD has enabled > an option for a SMP kernel, it didn't install a kernel and thus failed > to boot. > > I was contimplating if I could install the kernel as a package or a non > named distribution. Is there anything I can do, or do I have to send a > CD down and hope my provider doesn't charge me to much? > > This'll teach me for not buying a CD-RW when I buy a new server... "What > will I need one of them for, it's a colo server.". I don't know if this will help you or not, but just this morning, I had a 5.4-PRERELEASE box that was giving me major issues (#1 being I could not compile anything), so I did the binary upgrade from a 6.2 CD. It only did base the first time, and subsequently did not boot. I then booted off of the 6.2 CD, mounted the hard disk into /, then proceeded with install. Instead of selecting 'Minimal' for distributions, I went in and manually added the base, and the GENERIC kernel, after that, I was up and running. Steve