Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 00:07:23 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: james@mansionfamily.plus.com Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How can I change back from pcbsd to freebsd? Message-ID: <20131114000723.1f2dd913.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <5283F3DD.8040809@mansionfamily.plus.com> References: <5283F3DD.8040809@mansionfamily.plus.com>
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On Wed, 13 Nov 2013 21:49:17 +0000, james wrote: > I had 'upgraded' to TrueOS in the absence of pkg repos, but now I'd like > to change back. > [...] > Anyway, I'd like to pick up vanilla 9.2 if I can and then move to 10.0 > with its release. > > Is it going to be possible? I'd say the simplest way to do this is to obtain the sources for the desired system (9.2-RELEASE) and follow the easy instructions provided in the comment header of /usr/src/Makefile. >From that point, further following of the security updates and finally a binary upgrade to 10 via freebsd-update should be possible. You can use svn to check out the sources, or just download them from the FTP server (the src.txz file for the OS version you want to use). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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