howto upgrade 4.8 to 4.9 without cdrom or floppy? ERROR

[paul van den bergen]

Yes, I am familiar with that upgrade path...  Part of my motivation was ... 
well, lazyness :-) using someone elses worked out example, part a desire to 
blow away a rather mixed and heavily tweeked system (read I've been 
experimenting on it for so long I'm not sure what I've done anymore)...  and 
a small part the thrill of tackling an interesting problem... (<mode = evil 
willow> "Bored Now!" </mode>)

In particular I wanted to completely remove a whole bunch of pkg_adds I'd done 
manually without doing pkg_delete or whatever...  given there was nothing I 
needed to keep, I figured it was easier to reinstall from scratch 
(4.9-RELEASE), with or without cvsup'ing to 4.9 stable.

On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 11:56 am, Minnesota Slinky wrote:
> There's actually a very simple process to use to upgrade, providing you
> have a broadband connection:
>
> 1) cvsup your sources to the newer sources.  For more information read
> about cvsup or checkout the handbook!
> 2) once you have new sources, cd to /usr/src and type make world; this
> could take an hour or more
> 3) if this completes OK, cd to /usr/src/sys/i386/conf (on 386-based
> processor systems) and type:
> 	# config GENERIC (or whatever your kernel config file is)
> 4) type:
> 	# cd ../../compile/GENERIC (or name of kernel config file)
> 	# make; make depend; make install
> 5) if this completes OK, type:
> 	# shutdown -r now
> 6) once rebooted, login, and check uname -a.  You will see stats for a
> 4.9-x kernel!
>
> HTH
>
> Eric F Crist
> President
> AdTech Integrated Systems, Inc
> (612) 998-3588
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of paul van den
> bergen
> Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 6:42 PM
> To: FreeBSD-questions
> Cc: hackers at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: howto upgrade 4.8 to 4.9 without cdrom or floppy? ERROR
>
>
> After all that angst, I couldn't get it to work anyway - on reboot the
> system
> reverted to a 4.8 kernel...  Not sure why, but gave up at this point...
>
> On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 05:25 pm, paul van den bergen wrote:
> > On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 05:17 pm, paul van den bergen wrote:
> > > Hi...
> >
> > snip...
> >
> > I stuffed up...
> >
> > > # vnconfig vn1 /path/to/freebsd4.9/floppies/boot.flp
> > > # mkdir /bootfloppy
> > > # mount_mfs /dev/vn1c /bootfloppy/
> >
> >     ^^^^^^^^^
> > does not work...
> > try simply
> >
> > # mount /dev/vn1c /bootfloppy/

-- 
Dr Paul van den Bergen
Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures
caia.swin.edu.au
pvandenbergen at swin.edu.au
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