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Date:      Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:14:45 -0600
From:      eculp <eculp@encontacto.net>
To:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Updating from 7.2-STABLE FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE #901 to 8-release
Message-ID:  <20100104191445.378072gqiht549kw@econet.encontacto.net>

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I intend to first upgrade my old, but up to date, 7.2-STABLE FreeBSD =20
7.2-STABLE #901 to the latest 8.0 release and then probably to 9.0 =20
current.  I want to conserve as much as I can so I thought that I =20
might give freebsd-update upgrade -r 8.0-RELEASE a try.  Previously I =20
have used cvsup and/or a cdrom but freebsd-update is binary and even =20
does ports so being lazy . . . .

I have tried and the following are the results.

freebsd-update upgrade -r 8.0-RELEASE
Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found.
Fetching public key from update5.FreeBSD.org... failed.
Fetching public key from update4.FreeBSD.org... failed.
Fetching public key from update2.FreeBSD.org... failed.
No mirrors remaining, giving up.

I am trying to follow the instructions at
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.0R/announce.html

I guess that I could just use cvsup or the new dvd.  Does anyone who =20
has done this give me a tip?

Also to go from 8.0 to 9.0 should be fairly easy with cvsup, kernel, =20
world, rebooting and recompiling all ports, no?

Thanks,

ed



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