Re: Upgrade path from STABLE to RELEASE

2011-01-10 Thread Mike Clarke
On Friday 07 January 2011, Matthew Seaman wrote: Your choices are to backup and reinstall using a release version, or to grab the latest -STABLE or -RELEASE sources and upgrade by compiling from source.  Note that last option still won't allow you to use freebsd-update subsequently: you have

Upgrade path from STABLE to RELEASE

2011-01-07 Thread Paul Macdonald
Hi, I have a box which i installed 7.0 stable on and i want to do a binary update to 8.1 REL, is this possible via the freebsd-update utility? freebsd-update -r 8.1-RELEASE upgrade Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 4 mirrors found. Fetching public key from update5.FreeBSD.org...

Re: Upgrade path from STABLE to RELEASE

2011-01-07 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 07/01/2011 11:14, Paul Macdonald wrote: I have a box which i installed 7.0 stable on and i want to do a binary update to 8.1 REL, is this possible via the freebsd-update utility? freebsd-update -r 8.1-RELEASE upgrade Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 4 mirrors found. Fetching