On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 01:56:23PM -0500, William Bulley wrote: > > According to Frank Shute <fr...@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.
Sorry, William. I deleted the rest of the thread & then forgot what the thread was originally about :) Put it down to senility. > > 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. Best of luck! > > Regards, > > web... > Regards, -- Frank Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html
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