Re: Updating from 7.2-STABLE FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE #901 to 8-release
Quoting Andreas Rudisch : On Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:14:45 -0600 eculp wrote: I intend to first upgrade my old, but up to date, 7.2-STABLE FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE #901 to the latest 8.0 release I want to conserve as much as I can so I thought that I might give freebsd-update upgrade -r 8.0-RELEASE a try. freebsd-update does not work on STABLE branches. You can only track a RELEASE branch and a few Beta/RC releases with it. I am trying to follow the instructions at http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.0R/announce.html From the first paragraph: "Systems running 7.[012]-RELEASE, 8.0-BETA[1234], or 8.0-RC[123] can upgrade" Looks like I was reading what I wanted to read and not what was written. Sorry. Thanks for the the wakeup call. Have a great day, ed Andreas -- GnuPG key : 0x2A573565|http://www.gnupg.org/howtos/de/ Fingerprint: 925D 2089 0BF9 8DE5 9166 33BB F0FD CD37 2A57 3565 ___ 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"
Re: Updating from 7.2-STABLE FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE #901 to 8-release
On Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:14:45 -0600 eculp wrote: > I intend to first upgrade my old, but up to date, 7.2-STABLE FreeBSD > 7.2-STABLE #901 to the latest 8.0 release > I want to conserve as much as I can so I thought that I might give > freebsd-update upgrade -r 8.0-RELEASE a try. freebsd-update does not work on STABLE branches. You can only track a RELEASE branch and a few Beta/RC releases with it. > I am trying to follow the instructions at > http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.0R/announce.html >From the first paragraph: "Systems running 7.[012]-RELEASE, 8.0-BETA[1234], or 8.0-RC[123] can upgrade" Andreas -- GnuPG key : 0x2A573565|http://www.gnupg.org/howtos/de/ Fingerprint: 925D 2089 0BF9 8DE5 9166 33BB F0FD CD37 2A57 3565 pgp57onOdNsXA.pgp Description: PGP signature
Updating from 7.2-STABLE FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE #901 to 8-release
I intend to first upgrade my old, but up to date, 7.2-STABLE FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE #901 to the latest 8.0 release and then probably to 9.0 current. I want to conserve as much as I can so I thought that I might give freebsd-update upgrade -r 8.0-RELEASE a try. Previously I have used cvsup and/or a cdrom but freebsd-update is binary and even 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 has done this give me a tip? Also to go from 8.0 to 9.0 should be fairly easy with cvsup, kernel, world, rebooting and recompiling all ports, no? Thanks, ed ___ 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"
