[This question would be better to ask on the freebsd-questions list, but see below.]
On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 11:41:40AM -0700, Brian Duke wrote: > 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=CHANGE_ME.freebsd.org > >>>host=cvsup15.us.FreeBSD.org > <<<tag=RELENG_6_2 > >>>tag=RELENG_7_1 > > #cd /usr/src > #cvsup -g -L2 /root/stand_sup > ... > #make -j4 buildworld; make -j4 buildkernel; make installkernel > > ... (come back a hour or so later) > #make installworld; reboot > > After system is back up log in as root and... > > # uname -a > FreeBSD lazerus.box201.com 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 12 > 11:05:30 UTC 2007 [email protected]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP > i386 > > I cannot understand why this system will not upgrade. Even with the > mergemaster -p commands added this system always boots to FreeBSD > 6.2-RELEASE. I've tried this in various ways about 20 times and slowly I'm > corrupting the 6.2 build. I have the install disks but the Upgrade FreeBSD > detects the /usr/src and refuses to over-write the directory. The make > commands always finish perfectly. Would someone give this apparent noob a > hand? You have misunderstood the purpose of csup/cvsup. It will upgrade your source tree and allow you to compile a new kernel and userspace, but it will not upgrade your system for your. What you appear to want to do (binary upgrade) can be accomplished using freebsd-update. See the Updating and Upgrading FreeBSD chapter of the FreeBSD Handbook, particularly the FreeBSD Update section for more details: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/updating-upgrading.html -- Brooks
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