Re: Upgrade 4.8-4.9 help!
Bob Perry wrote: Eric F Crist wrote: On Wednesday 11 February 2004 06:25 pm, richard wrote: Hi, I'm trying to upgrade Freebsd 4.8 to 4.9 using sysinstall | upgrade off a 4.9 CD. All seems fine until it gets to the point where it reports it can't even extract the bin distribution and fails. Does anyone know of a fool-proof way to get this upgrade through? Preferably some idiot-proof instructions I can follow. Cheers, Richard Richard, If you have broadband, install cvsup, read the man page on that, and install new sources over FTP via cvsup. Once you have a correct supfile, it's pretty brainless. Most of us have some upgrading done via cron on a regular basis, completely unattended. Would you care to summarize your upgrading procedure which you process on a "regular basis, completely unattended."? Details not necessary at this time, just very curious. Thanks, Bob Perry HTH Haven't done it, but I'm guessing it's: X Y Z Acvsup /path/to/my.supfile Q R S Tcd /usr/src && make buildworld > /my/homedir/buildworld.log "make buildkernel etc., make installkernel, make installworld, etc. I've been thinking of scripting this procedure and then just calling "upgrade.php*" via cron. Doubt that it'd be too good for the 'mergemaster' step, though. FWIW, the chapter in the handbook actually makes the procedure pretty clear. Kevin Kinsey *Yeah, PHP for scripting, I know ... give a old dog new languages? Not yet, please ;-) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Upgrade 4.8-4.9 help!
Eric F Crist wrote: On Wednesday 11 February 2004 06:25 pm, richard wrote: Hi, I'm trying to upgrade Freebsd 4.8 to 4.9 using sysinstall | upgrade off a 4.9 CD. All seems fine until it gets to the point where it reports it can't even extract the bin distribution and fails. Does anyone know of a fool-proof way to get this upgrade through? Preferably some idiot-proof instructions I can follow. Cheers, Richard Richard, If you have broadband, install cvsup, read the man page on that, and install new sources over FTP via cvsup. Once you have a correct supfile, it's pretty brainless. Most of us have some upgrading done via cron on a regular basis, completely unattended. Would you care to summarize your upgrading procedure which you process on a "regular basis, completely unattended."? Details not necessary at this time, just very curious. Thanks, Bob Perry HTH -- FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE-p13 0# ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Upgrade 4.8-4.9 help!
On Wednesday 11 February 2004 06:25 pm, richard wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to upgrade Freebsd 4.8 to 4.9 using sysinstall | upgrade off a > 4.9 CD. All seems fine until it gets to the point where it reports it > can't even extract the bin distribution and fails. > > Does anyone know of a fool-proof way to get this upgrade through? > Preferably some idiot-proof instructions I can follow. > > Cheers, > Richard Richard, If you have broadband, install cvsup, read the man page on that, and install new sources over FTP via cvsup. Once you have a correct supfile, it's pretty brainless. Most of us have some upgrading done via cron on a regular basis, completely unattended. HTH -- Eric F Crist AdTech Integrated Systems, Inc (612) 998-3588 pgp0.pgp Description: signature
