According to "Galati, Michael" <[email protected]> on Wed, 11/23/11 at 00:40: > > If you still have trouble compiling, you could always do a fresh > install off one of the 9.0-RC2 images on a spare machine (or on > virtual machine; VirtualBox works well for this), and build the > sources there. Once the make build{world,kernel} steps complete, copy > (or export over NFS) /usr/{src,obj} to the machine to be upgraded, and > do the usual make install{kernel,world} (and mergemaster) steps. > > I just did this just yesterday to bring a test box up from stable/8 to > stable/9; worked like a charm. YMMV. > > Apparently freebsd-update(8) works for binary updates as well, but > I've never used it (check the release announcement on freebsd-current > or freebsd-stable from the 17th). > > Good luck! ^_^'
Thanks. I am now happily running 9.0-PRERELEASE (!) and finally past all those weird bsdinstall issues. What a mess! Thanks for all the replies and help. I didn't use anything other than what I view as the "standard" (t/m) way to upgrade: csup-of-stable/buildworld/installworld which method has always worked in the past for me, but had trouble in the attempt to upgrade to a 9.x variant before it was ready for prime time. I would not normally have done this, but there were extenuating circumstances that required the attempt. Thanks again. :-) Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: [email protected] 72 characters width template ----------------------------------------->| _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
