Upgrade FreeBSD 7.1 to 7.2

[Lowell Gilbert]

Mikael Bak <mikael at t-online.hu> writes:

> Lowell Gilbert wrote:
>> Mikael Bak <mikael at t-online.hu> writes:
>> 
>>> I would like to do a binary upgrade from 7.1 to 7.2. I've seen the
>>> instructions here:
>>> http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.2R/announce.html
>>>
>
> Miroslav, Robert, Lowell,
>
> Thank you all for the useful information!
>
> The binary upgrade from 7.1 -> 7.2 went without any problems.
> I didn't bother to switch to single user mode. I did however stop some
> critical services in /etc/rc.conf before starting the upgrade.
>
> The reason why I didn't go to single user mode was that my /usr and /var
> were not mounted in single user. I had only /. I wasn't sure how to deal
> with that.

You mount them.  There's an entry in the FAQ on it, but the short
version is (if I recall offhand): "mount -a" will do it.