Yes, freebsd-update is the way to go... I got it done on my home/test
server.
back in the office where I have one machine on it thou.
# uname -a
FreeBSD rhino.matrix 9.1-BETA1 FreeBSD 9.1-BETA1 #0 r239929M: Fri Aug 31
12:42:47 EST 2012 root@rhino.matrix:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
#
TB --- 2012-09-02 20:02:38 - tinderbox 2.9 running on freebsd-legacy2.sentex.ca
TB --- 2012-09-02 20:02:38 - FreeBSD freebsd-legacy2.sentex.ca 9.0-RELEASE
FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE #0: Tue Jan 3 07:46:30 UTC 2012
r...@farrell.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
TB --- 2012-09-02 20
TB --- 2012-09-02 19:46:42 - tinderbox 2.9 running on freebsd-legacy2.sentex.ca
TB --- 2012-09-02 19:46:42 - FreeBSD freebsd-legacy2.sentex.ca 9.0-RELEASE
FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE #0: Tue Jan 3 07:46:30 UTC 2012
r...@farrell.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
TB --- 2012-09-02 19
TB --- 2012-09-02 19:27:27 - tinderbox 2.9 running on freebsd-legacy2.sentex.ca
TB --- 2012-09-02 19:27:27 - FreeBSD freebsd-legacy2.sentex.ca 9.0-RELEASE
FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE #0: Tue Jan 3 07:46:30 UTC 2012
r...@farrell.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
TB --- 2012-09-02 19
TB --- 2012-09-02 19:14:51 - tinderbox 2.9 running on freebsd-legacy2.sentex.ca
TB --- 2012-09-02 19:14:51 - FreeBSD freebsd-legacy2.sentex.ca 9.0-RELEASE
FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE #0: Tue Jan 3 07:46:30 UTC 2012
r...@farrell.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
TB --- 2012-09-02 19
TB --- 2012-09-02 19:28:01 - tinderbox 2.9 running on freebsd-legacy2.sentex.ca
TB --- 2012-09-02 19:28:01 - FreeBSD freebsd-legacy2.sentex.ca 9.0-RELEASE
FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE #0: Tue Jan 3 07:46:30 UTC 2012
r...@farrell.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
TB --- 2012-09-02 19
TB --- 2012-09-02 19:04:28 - tinderbox 2.9 running on freebsd-legacy2.sentex.ca
TB --- 2012-09-02 19:04:28 - FreeBSD freebsd-legacy2.sentex.ca 9.0-RELEASE
FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE #0: Tue Jan 3 07:46:30 UTC 2012
r...@farrell.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
TB --- 2012-09-02 19