From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 22 18:56:25 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C659E1065679 for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 18:56:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from web@umich.edu) Received: from hackers.mr.itd.umich.edu (smtp.mail.umich.edu [141.211.14.81]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 835968FC1A for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 18:56:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: FROM itcom245.staff.itd.umich.edu (itcom245.staff.itd.umich.edu [141.213.135.249]) By hackers.mr.itd.umich.edu ID 4ECBF058.1CB13.30740 ; Authuser web; 22 Nov 2011 13:56:24 EST Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 13:56:23 -0500 From: William Bulley To: Frank Shute Message-ID: <20111122185623.GA25594@itcom245.staff.itd.umich.edu> Mail-Followup-To: Frank Shute , FreeBSD Questions Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: where to ask about problems with bsdinstall in 9.0RC2? 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: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 18:56:25 -0000 According to Frank Shute 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 ----------------------------------------->|