updating from 6.3 to 7, mirror problems

[alasdair at iprimus.com.au]

>-- Original Message --
>Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2008 19:37:29 -0500
>From: "matt donovan" <kitchetech at gmail.com>
>To: "andrew clarke" <mail at ozzmosis.com>
>Subject: Re: updating from 6.3 to 7, mirror problems
>Cc: alasdair at iprimus.com.au, freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>
>
>On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 11:37 AM, andrew clarke <mail at ozzmosis.com> wrote:
>
>> On Fri 2008-10-31 08:11:49 UTC+1100, alasdair at iprimus.com.au (
>> alasdair at iprimus.com.au) wrote:
>>
>> > localhost# /usr/sbin/freebsd-update --debug fetch
>> > Looking up update1.FreeBSD.org mirrors... none found.
>> > Fetching public key from update1.FreeBSD.org...
>> > fetch: http://update1.FreeBSD.org/6.3-STABLE/i386/pub.ssl: Not Found
>>
>> Ah, this is not a DNS problem.
>>
>> You are trying to run freebsd-update from 6.3-STABLE.  This isn't
>> supported.  From the freebsd-update(8) manpage:
>>
>> "The FreeBSD Security Team only builds updates for releases shipped in
>> binary form by the FreeBSD Release Engineering Team, e.g., FreeBSD
>> 6.1-RELEASE and FreeBSD 6.2-RC1, but not FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE or FreeBSD
>> 7.0-CURRENT."
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>
>yeah I should have noticed the 6.3-STABLE but I did not

Ok I see. How do I update from 6.3 STABLE to 7.0 STABLE ? I imagine there
is a tool for that? Short of down loading the iso files and doing it from
discs.

Thanks for your patience!!

Regards,

Alasdair