From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 7 01:40:45 2009 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 D98FC106564A for ; Sun, 7 Jun 2009 01:40:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: from mail-gx0-f207.google.com (mail-gx0-f207.google.com [209.85.217.207]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 967198FC08 for ; Sun, 7 Jun 2009 01:40:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: by gxk3 with SMTP id 3so3194516gxk.19 for ; Sat, 06 Jun 2009 18:40:44 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=Sjs8QO05lJBKqkd83ccL0dpDrUk+13n+qrad6REng7E=; b=HiLp85PW9P80SnMTqUxlDEK5hqnSzYdWeIyno+Hela9NI3jBQJoqnfa5EL7mtPAnhw df2qRryBqRPMZ+iNc9yOFliLY0wChxvxWfZXiesVfs718hbXUw7V0ei2rG/jX50gM7ue 558mpTaEGTmhnVfThzDIe8+hrmzr3PO3fBb6U= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=gVvz1/Wa2Xa/Xb+5cd8dUSel2wWeO6os8d9fdjRZkeuzBhh2SWaTDgDMG3l/scvVYY hnbO5Ck0Uv+Ule/2rrZBprMa6ZTpEdsxep6IZ7O9jSZ4buQ1GF+zR3HSyTUnxq/2jDQp +nUJDsNnKnQjPbsi3j/L/9noS6ZHoifp5fmLg= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.231.10.136 with SMTP id p8mr1386235ibp.14.1244338844706; Sat, 06 Jun 2009 18:40:44 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20090606201303.GD26421@scout.stangl.us> References: <20090606201303.GD26421@scout.stangl.us> Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2009 21:40:44 -0400 Message-ID: From: "illoai@gmail.com" To: Alex Stangl Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem w/ 6.0 -> 7.2 update 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: Sun, 07 Jun 2009 01:40:46 -0000 2009/6/6 Alex Stangl : > It's also not clear to me whether using freebsd-update.sh is the right > approach for upgrading from 6.0-RELEASE to 7.2-RELEASE, or if I should > follow some alternate approach, like booting the 7.2 CD and doing a > binary upgrade from there? I've always done such upgrades from source. It's fairly (!) simple and reasonably well documented (see the end of /usr/src/UPDATING) and some due care has prevented any maimings or deaths. -- --