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

By: bill

bill — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 21:10:07 +0000

options SCHED_ULE ULE scheduler
options PREEMPTION Enable kernel thread preemption
options INET InterNETworking
options INET6 IPv6 communications protocols
options SCTP Stream Control Transmission Protocol
options FFS Berkeley Fast Filesystem
options SOFTUPDATES Enable FFS soft updates support
options UFS_ACL # Support for access control lists
options UFS_DIRHASH Improve performance on big directories
options UFS_GJOURNAL # Enable gjournal-based UFS journaling
options MD_ROOT # MD is a potential root device
options NFSCLIENT Network Filesystem Client
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192# make buildkernel
make: don’t know how to make buildkernel. Stop
192# make installkernel
Please Help

this is what I am getting… It will not build!

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.