On 14 March 2011 00:10, Andrew Moran <amo...@forsythia.net> wrote: > I have successfully upgraded form FreeBSD 8.1 to FreeBSD 8.2. Here were my > steps: > > cvsup /root/stable-supfile > cd /usr/src > make buildworld > make buildkernel > make installkernel > shutdown -r now > > *select single user mode* > > mount -u / > zfs mount -a > mergemaster -p > make installworld > mergemaster > > gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ad4 > gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ad5 > > zpool upgrade -a > zfs upgrade -a > > shutdown -r now > > > NOTE 1: the gpart commands are specific to my setup - I'm using a ZFS > mirror on ad4 and ad5. Your system may be different. > NOTE 2: my "zfs upgrade -a" ran out of swap space and died. I ran "zfs > upgrade" to see what filesystems were left un-upgraded and did those > manually. > > Thanks Scott Ballantyne and everyone else who responded. > > Cheers! > > --Andy > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" >
sorry this is a bit late but here is the update script I use. I basically creates a structure like this. Makes if very easy to flip flop between os installs by modifying the pool bootfs variable system-4k/be 35.2G 1.20T 156K /system-4k/be system-4k/be/current 1.22G 1.20T 740M legacy system-4k/be/root20110226 2.80G 1.20T 882M legacy system-4k/be/root20110302 3.24G 1.20T 882M legacy system-4k/be/root20110306 1.32G 1.20T 882M legacy system-4k/be/root20110312 1.36G 1.20T 923M legacy system-4k/be/tmp 776K 1.21T 260K /tmp system-4k/be/usr-local 2.84G 1.20T 2.47G /usr/local/ system-4k/be/usr-obj 5.08G 1.20T 2.09G /usr/obj system-4k/be/usr-ports 5.82G 1.20T 4.33G /usr/ports system-4k/be/usr-ports/distfiles 1.20G 1.20T 1.19G /usr/ports/distfiles system-4k/be/usr-src 1.49G 1.20T 973M /usr/src system-4k/be/var 4.72G 1.21T 805M /var system-4k/be/var/log 3.66G 1.21T 2.34G /var/log system-4k/be/var/mysql 82.5M 1.21T 33.9M /var/db/mysql #!/usr/local/bin/bash if [ $UID != 0 ] ; then echo your not root !! ; exit 1 fi date=`date '+%Y%m%d'` oroot=`grep "vfs.root.mountfrom=\"zfs:system-4k/" /boot/loader.conf | sed -e "s#^.*\"zfs:system-4k/be/##" -e "s#\"##"` nroot="root$date" snap="autoup-$RANDOM" zpool=system-4k export DESTDIR=/$zpool/be/$nroot if [ "$oroot" = "$nroot" ] ; then echo "i cant update twice in one day"; exit 1 fi echo building in $zpool/be/$nroot zfs snapshot $zpool/be/$oroot@$snap && zfs send $zpool/be/$oroot@$snap | zfs receive -vv $zpool/be/$nroot && cd /usr/src && make installkernel && make installworld && sed -i -e "s#$zpool/be/$oroot#$zpool/be/$nroot#" /$zpool/be/$nroot/boot/loader.conf && \ echo "Installing boot records.." && zpool status system-4k | grep -A 2 mirror | grep ad | sed -e "s/p[0-9]//" | while read a b; do gpart bootcode -b /zfsboot/pmbr -p /zfsboot/gptzfsboot -i 1 $a; done && cp -v /zfsboot/zfsloader /$zpool/be/$nroot/boot/. && echo -en "\n\nNow run these two commands to make the changes live, and reboot zfs set mountpoint=legacy $zpool/be/$nroot zpool set bootfs=$zpool/be/$nroot $zpool\n\n" _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"