Steps to upgrade from 7.0-RELEASE to 7.1-RELEASE

[krad at snaffler.net]

Zbigniew Szalbot wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 07:34, Tim Judd <tajudd at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Akenner wrote:
>>     
>>> RW wrote:
>>>       
>>>> On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 05:07:46 -0700
>>>> Tim Judd <tajudd at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> Nothing really beats the CVS way.  And when I tried a 7.0 to a 7.1,
>>>>> it wanted like >30,000 updates and was taking forever.
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>> It seems to me that most people that come to this list with base-system
>>>> update problems are using  freebsd-update.
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> This is going to seem stupid, but instead of making a new topic, can
>>> someone link to me a working link of the handbook where you update your CVS
>>> and so on?  I know that on the FreeBSD page there is a handbook that has
>>> exactly what I'm looking for, and for some reason I'm having trouble finding
>>> it even though I used to have it saved but I don't anymore and I wanted to
>>> get CVS sources updated so I can do some updating.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>>       
>> csup -g -L 1 -h cvs#.cc.freebsd.org
>> /usr/share/examples/cvsup/standard-supfile
>>
>> i.e: cvs17.us.freebsd.org
>>
>> This will update to your uname -r latest patchlevel.  Copy and replace (for
>> you): RELENG_7_0 with RELENG_7_1 to get the latest patchlevel for 7.1
>>
>>
>> Original doc seems either replaced by the freebsd-update method (while
>> excellent, there are a few things that CVS really triumphs on).
>>
>> csup is part of base.
>>
>> I'd be glad to help you through.  The canonical update method is still
>> listed in the handbook (SS. 24.7.1) used after retrieving the sources.
>>     
>
> Thank you Tim for the answers! So far I have used freebsd-update to
> apply updates. I seem to recall that it is never good to mix the two
> systems (freebsd-updates and csup) to avoid trouble. Is that true?
>
> Also, the documentation you mention (24.7.1) says this:
>
> After installkernel finishes successfully, you should boot in single
> user mode (i.e. using boot -s from the loader prompt).
>
> How can this be done with a remote machine?
>
>   
NO without serial access or some kind of ALOM card eg DELL DRAC CARD, as 
you will have no ip up