Hi,
I'm in the process of attempting to upgrade from 8.2 to 9.0, I somehow managed to screw up a whole slew of things - missing libraries, broken buildworlds, thoroughly borked device entries, etc. I have spent an inordinate amount of time trying to recover it, to no avail. This is an i386 system with no floppy or CD/DVD drive.
I can boot my system via USB from the FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick image. I can mount the system's filesystems under /mnt, and get a network connection and NFS mount the entire 9.0 DVD release.
I would like to do essentially a binary upgrade onto the existing filesystems (mounted under /mnt) from the DVD. I.e. leave the filesystems intact, leave all the subdirectories (e.g. /usr/local, /users/, etc.) intact that shouldn't be affected by the upgrade, but update kernel, libraries, etc.
I can't figure out how to upgrade from the DVD because for some reason all the filenames are in all capital letters.
I can't run freebsd-update because
I can't do a fresh install on top of the existing partitions from the installer because I run into a checksum error when it attempts to verify the base system packages.
Can someone please give me a hint as to what I should be running or copying where?
Thanks!
I'm in the process of attempting to upgrade from 8.2 to 9.0, I somehow managed to screw up a whole slew of things - missing libraries, broken buildworlds, thoroughly borked device entries, etc. I have spent an inordinate amount of time trying to recover it, to no avail. This is an i386 system with no floppy or CD/DVD drive.
I can boot my system via USB from the FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick image. I can mount the system's filesystems under /mnt, and get a network connection and NFS mount the entire 9.0 DVD release.
I would like to do essentially a binary upgrade onto the existing filesystems (mounted under /mnt) from the DVD. I.e. leave the filesystems intact, leave all the subdirectories (e.g. /usr/local, /users/, etc.) intact that shouldn't be affected by the upgrade, but update kernel, libraries, etc.
I can't figure out how to upgrade from the DVD because for some reason all the filenames are in all capital letters.
I can't run freebsd-update because
Code:
Cannot upgrade from 9.0-RELEASE to itself
I can't do a fresh install on top of the existing partitions from the installer because I run into a checksum error when it attempts to verify the base system packages.
Can someone please give me a hint as to what I should be running or copying where?
Thanks!