RE: cvsup freebsd 6_2 to freebsd 7_1 not upgrading?

2009-01-06 Thread Brian Duke
This is very odd. I got desperate last night and steeled myself for a reinstall. Copied all the known keeper files to an alternate drive including /home, /etc, /usr/local/etc and a couple others. It's on a completely separate drive with no OS just files on it. I downloaded what I thought was 7.1 is

RE: cvsup freebsd 6_2 to freebsd 7_1 not upgrading?

2009-01-05 Thread Brian Duke
Forgive me for not being as clear as I should have been. I was trying to be brief. The original email stated in the paragraph below my procedure... > I cannot understand why this system will not upgrade. Even with the > mergemaster -p commands added this system always boots to FreeBSD > 6.2-REL

cvsup freebsd 6_2 to freebsd 7_1 not upgrading?

2009-01-05 Thread Brian Duke
Hello List, I'm trying to upgrade my system from 6_2 to 7_1 and cannot seem to do it. Perhaps I'm missing something. Here is the basic procedure I'm following. #cp /usr/share/examples/cvsup/standard-supfile /root/stand_sup #vi /root/stand_sup <<>>host=cvsup15.us.FreeBSD.org <<>>tag=RELENG_7_1 #cd