Re: Upgrading FreeBSD Questions

Hello Jason,

----- Original Message ----
From: Jason Slack <slackmoehrle@xxxxxxxxx>
To: freebsd-stable@xxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 2:25:18 AM
Subject: Upgrading FreeBSD Questions

Hi All,

I am new to FreeBSD, or want to be.

I have an HP Media center PC that has the Viiv 920-D processor with
4GB

of
RAM. I hate Windows, but had to sell my MacBook so my Fiance and
I

could get
into a new apartment together.

I want to try version 7 as it has items of interest to me, but I am
not

one
to continually wipe and reload my machine, can you upgrade from
the

test
releases of 7 available now to the final release when ready? Or do
you

have
to wipe?

I apologize, but I am from a Solaris environment and then OS X.

Jason
--
"Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with
people

who
are reckless with yours"........Lehrmann (1997)

You can always upgrade to a newer FreeBSD version without too much hassle.

Here are the steps.

csup your src tree to RELENG_7

Then do these steps as root

#cd /usr/src
#make cleandir
#make cleanworld
#mergemaster -p
#make buildworld
#make buildkernel
#make installkernel
#reboot
#cd /usr/src
#make installworld
#mergemaster -iU (-iU added to automatically install files that don't exist and upgrade those that haven't changed.
#reboot

mergemaster made it very easy to upgrade, thank you Doug! }:)

Regards,
-Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri
Arab Portal
http://www.WeArab.Net/





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