Comments on: HowTo: Upgrade FreeBSD 7.2 To FreeBSD 8 Using csup

By: Rex

Rex — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:37:05 +0000

I think you should go through and correct this post after reading the comments.

One other thing you should add is that make buildkernel needs to be done in /usr/src, not in /usr/src/sys/`uname -p`/conf like your directions imply.

thanks for the outline, though, it’s handy.

By: xer

xer — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 11:23:52 +0000

Yes Vivek, fix your how to, RELENG_8_0 is for RELEASE and not for STABLE, infact for RELEASE is better to use freebsd-update, see this table:
http://www.freebsd.org/releng/index.html

I read always your blog, and i like too much your how tos
Cheers

By: Aaron Toponce

Aaron Toponce — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:37:09 +0000

Nevermind that this will take several, several hours to run through completion. I love FreeBSD, but managing ports is a royal PITA.

By: tangram

tangram — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:04:26 +0000

Also don’t edit the GENERIC configuration file. Copy it over and then edit or else next time you fetch the source code you’ll loose your customizations.

By: Andrew Terekhov

Andrew Terekhov — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:09:56 +0000

In single user mode run:
/sbin/adjkerntzl -i
to set system time correctly before running “make installworld”. Source – the Handbook.

By: tangram

tangram — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:37:30 +0000

Nice article.

Notice a small snag in the supfile section:
*default release=cvs tag=RELENG_8_0
means that you are following the errata branch not stable.

To follow Stable:
*default release=cvs tag=RELENG_8

Take care.