FreeBSD:Upgrade

Official FreeBSD Handbook version

Our condensed and more dangerous version of upgrading from FreeBSD 5.4 to 6.0 (but should apply to any version changes, just change the RELENG_6). Do a backup first.: *default host=cvsup11.FreeBSD.org *default base=/var/db *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_6 *default delete use-rel-suffix *default compress src-all
 * 1) grep -v ^# /etc/stable-supfile


 * 1) cvsup /etc/stable-supfile
 * 2) rm -rf /usr/obj
 * 3) cd /usr/src
 * 4) make buildworld
 * 5) make buildkernel
 * 6) make installkernel
 * 7) reboot

when the machine is coming up, use "boot -s" to boot into super user mode.


 * 1) mergemaster -p
 * 2) make installworld
 * 3) mergemaster
 * 4) reboot