Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 21:39:37 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?Q?G=C3=B3t_Andr=C3=A1s?= <andrej@antiszoc.hu> To: <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 9.1-RC2 Available... Message-ID: <1c7d96914a72449945f047146eaed394@antiszoc.hu> In-Reply-To: <1349895240.84923.22.camel@bauer.cse.buffalo.edu> References: <1349895240.84923.22.camel@bauer.cse.buffalo.edu>
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Hi, Sorry for crossposting, but this would be really nice to be fixed in the final release. I just installed one RC2 onto a XenServer 6.1 cluster but cannot boot with XENHVM kernel. I started a thread on the freebsd-xen list, which is here: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-xen/2012-October/001374.html Regards, Andras On Wed, 10 Oct 2012 14:54:00 -0400, Ken Smith wrote: > The second release candidate of the 9.1-RELEASE release cycle is now > available on the FTP servers for amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, and > powerpc64. The MD5/SHA256 checksums are at the bottom of this > message. > The ISO images and, for architectures that support it, the memory > stick > images are available here: > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/9.1/ > > (or any of the FreeBSD mirror sites). > > A third RC build has been decided on, currently scheduled for a week > from now. The release builds themselves will begin about a week > after > RC3. The current target schedule has been updated: > > http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.1R/schedule.html > > If you notice any problems you can report them through the normal > Gnats > PR system or here on the -stable mailing list. > > There was enough "community push-back" from the decision to not > export > the 9.1 release branch activity to CVS that the decision has been > reversed. A firm decision has been made that 10.X release activity > will > not be exported to CVS. It hasn't been decided yet if the upcoming > 8.X > and/or 9.X (past 9.1) release activity will be exported. More > information about that will get posted as decisions get made. > > If you want to do a source-based update to an existing system using > SVN > the branch to use is releng/9.1. If you would like to use CVS > instead > use RELENG_9_1. > > The freebsd-update(8) utility supports binary upgrades of i386 and > amd64 > systems running earlier FreeBSD releases. Systems running > 9.0-RELEASE, > 9.1-BETA1, or 9.1-RC1 can upgrade as follows: > > # freebsd-update upgrade -r 9.1-RC2 > > During this process, FreeBSD Update may ask the user to help by > merging > some configuration files or by confirming that the automatically > performed > merging was done correctly. > > # freebsd-update install > > The system must be rebooted with the newly installed kernel before > continuing. > > # shutdown -r now > > After rebooting, freebsd-update needs to be run again to install the > new > userland components, and the system needs to be rebooted again: > > # freebsd-update install > # shutdown -r now > > Users of earlier FreeBSD releases (FreeBSD 7.X, 8.X) can also use > freebsd-update to upgrade to FreeBSD 9.1-RC2, but will be prompted to > rebuild all third-party applications (e.g., anything installed from > the > ports tree) after the second invocation of "freebsd-update install", > in > order to handle differences in the system libraries between FreeBSD > 7.X > or FreeBSD 8.X and FreeBSD 9.X. >
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