Upgrading to 6.1 (cvsup)

[Daniel A.]

Which one of the handbook pages are you looking at?
Well, anyway. This is what I did (Mind you, my way might have been the
wrong way. This is my first time upgrading a FreeBSD installation,
too).

# cp /usr/share/examples/cvsup/stable-supfile /root/
- Edit the /root/stable-supfile file to use a mirror near you.
# cvsup /root/stable-supfile
# cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/
# cp GENERIC MYKERNEL
- Edit MYKERNEL to reflect your needs (You could remove some of the
device drivers you dont need)
# cd /usr/src
# make buildworld
# make buildkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL
# make installkernel
# reboot
Now, boot into single-user mode and
# mergemaster -p
# make installworld
# mergemaster
# reboot

For more details, read
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html


On 5/9/06, John Cruz <cruzweb at gmail.com> wrote:
> So I want to upgrade to 6.1, but I've never used cvsup before and all
> the documentation is confusing as can be. Would it be easier to download
> the install mediums and do an upgrade install or is cvsup the better
> way? if so how do I go about it? the hanbook page on this is somewhat
> confusing, which is why i'm resorting to posts.
>
> Thanks,
>
> John
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