Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 13:56:23 -0500 From: William Bulley <web@umich.edu> To: Frank Shute <frank@shute.org.uk> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: where to ask about problems with bsdinstall in 9.0RC2? Message-ID: <20111122185623.GA25594@itcom245.staff.itd.umich.edu>
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According to Frank Shute <frank@shute.org.uk> on Tue, 11/22/11 at 13:36: > > Can't help you with your bsdinstall woes but to upgrade from > 8.2-STABLE to 9.0-RELEASE(currently RC2) branch you want to do a > csup(1)/buildworld cycle. > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html > > You should use the tag: > > *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_9_0 > > in your supfile. More details at: > > http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/freebsd_uptodate.html Thanks. :) Perhaps you came into this thread late, but that was my first attempt. But at that time, a few weeks ago, we were still at 9.0RC1 and my then buildworld/installworld attempt failed during the kernel compile step. Now that 9.0RC2 is available, I reckon it is worth a try dealing with the csup/buildworld/installworld process. I hope this works this time. Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: web@umich.edu 72 characters width template ----------------------------------------->|
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