Re: preparing for an upgrade

2008-11-25 Thread Kelly Martin
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 10:00 AM, Kelly Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This weekend I finally got around to trying freebsd-update on 6.2. It is there and works, but it would only update me to 6.2-RELEASE-p11. It told me 6.2 was past its end-of-life date (which I already knew). There was no

Re: preparing for an upgrade

2008-11-24 Thread Kelly Martin
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 9:07 PM, andrew clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue 2008-11-18 16:47:20 UTC-0700, Kelly Martin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: With the release of FreeBSD 6.4 imminent, I'd like to prepare for an upgrade from FreeBSD 6.2 - 6.4. Have you considered using freebsd-update?

preparing for an upgrade

2008-11-18 Thread Kelly Martin
With the release of FreeBSD 6.4 imminent, I'd like to prepare for an upgrade from FreeBSD 6.2 - 6.4. Please excuse my ignorance but in my mind here's what I plan to do when it's available: 1. install / run the upgrade script using CD-ROM media to a 6.4 GENERIC kernel, reboot 2. customize the

Re: preparing for an upgrade

2008-11-18 Thread matt donovan
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 6:47 PM, Kelly Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With the release of FreeBSD 6.4 imminent, I'd like to prepare for an upgrade from FreeBSD 6.2 - 6.4. Please excuse my ignorance but in my mind here's what I plan to do when it's available: 1. install / run the upgrade

Re: preparing for an upgrade

2008-11-18 Thread andrew clarke
On Tue 2008-11-18 16:47:20 UTC-0700, Kelly Martin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: With the release of FreeBSD 6.4 imminent, I'd like to prepare for an upgrade from FreeBSD 6.2 - 6.4. Have you considered using freebsd-update? From memory, it supports 6.2. Please excuse my ignorance but in my mind

Re: preparing for an upgrade

2008-11-18 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 03:07:32PM +1100, andrew clarke wrote: On Tue 2008-11-18 16:47:20 UTC-0700, Kelly Martin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: With the release of FreeBSD 6.4 imminent, I'd like to prepare for an upgrade from FreeBSD 6.2 - 6.4. Have you considered using freebsd-update? From

Re: preparing for an upgrade

2008-11-18 Thread Benjamin Lee
On 11/18/08 21:43, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: [...] You can only use it on 7.x if you add compatibility libraries and ensure your kernel has COMPAT_FREEBSD6 in it. These libraries have given some users trouble in the past; you will find most people advocate rebuilding all ports from scratch

Re: preparing for an upgrade

2008-11-18 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 10:13:50PM -0800, Benjamin Lee wrote: On 11/18/08 21:43, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: [...] You can only use it on 7.x if you add compatibility libraries and ensure your kernel has COMPAT_FREEBSD6 in it. These libraries have given some users trouble in the past; you will