Upgrading from FreeBSD 8.4p5 to 10.0RC4

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TVT

Hi!

I'm trying to upgrade from FreeBSD 8.4p5 to FreeBSD 10.0RC4 (testing in VirtualBox). build{world,kernel} completed OK. installkernel also completed OK but installworld fails with a script syntax error (malformed 'if' statement). I figured out that in the newer version the make utility is replaced with bmake. After replacement of make with a bmake symlink installworld also failed with a different and strange error. I supposed that in FreeBSD 8.4 such upgrade is not possible. I downloaded FreeBSD 10.0RC4 DVD, booted into shell, and made the following steps:

  1. I mounted the disk filesystem tree to /mnt.
  2. I issued mount_nullfs /mnt/tmp /tmp.
  3. I issued mount_nullfs /mnt/usr/src /usr/src.
  4. I issued mount_nullfs /mnt/usr/obj /usr/obj.
  5. I issued make -C /usr/src installworld DESTDIR=/mnt.

After all this installworld seemed to start normally but soon failed with the following result (recognized with online OCR from a screenshot):

Code: 
/; done
cd /mnt/usr/share/openssl/man: for mandir in man*; do install —l s ../$mandir
/mnt/usr/share/openss1/man/en.ISU8B59—1/; done
set — ‘grep "^[a—zfi—Z]" /usr/sre/etc/man.alias‘; while [ $fl —gt 0 1 ; do insta
ll —l s "$2" "/mnt/usr/share/man/$1"; install —l s "$2" "/mnt/usr/share/openss
l/man/$1"; shift; shift; done
set — ‘grep "“[a—zfi—Z]" /usr/src/etc/nls.alias‘; while [ $3 —gt 0 ] 1 do insta
ll —l s "$2" "/mnt/usr/share/nls/$1"; shift; shift; done

------------------------------------------------
>>> Installing everything
------------------------------------------------
ed /usr/src: /usr/obj/usr/src/make.i386/bmake —f Hakefile.ine1 install
===> share/info (install)
===> lib (install)
===> lib/esu/i386—elf (install)
install —o root —g wheel —m 441 erti.o ertn.o gert1.o ert1.o Sert1.o /mnt/usr/l
ib
===> lib/libe (install)
install —C -0 root —g uheel —m 444 libc.a /mnt/usr/lib
*** Signal 11

Stop.
bmake[5]: stopped in /usr/src/lib/libc
*** Error code 1

Does anybody have any proposition of how to overcome this problem without upgrading first to FreeBSD 9.x?
 
Re: Upgrading from FBSD 8.4p5 to 10.0RC4

Mmm... @wblock@'s approach seems to be a bit tedious. I have used dump+restore when porting a system from a malfunctioning drive to a brand new one and it was somewhat nervous. I suspect it is yet easier to upgrade to 9.2 and then to 10.0.

Upgrade via 9.2 is not too big a problem for me though I'd prefer to avoid it. The surprise for me is that the FreeBSD DVD showed it's not accommodated to be a reliable upgrade failure recovery environment. Or is it?
 
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Re: Upgrading from FBSD 8.4p5 to 10.0RC4

The nice thing about having options is that you can pick the one that you think will work best for you and with which you feel most comfortable.

TVT said:
The surprise for me is that the FreeBSD DVD showed it's not accommodated to be a reliable upgrade failure recovery environment. Or is it?
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If by upgrade failure recovery environment you mean can the installation DVD be used to directly recover a system, the answer is no. It is not disaster recovery media, it is installation media. Having said that, the DVD does have a "live" option that will allow you to run FreeBSD from DVD. From there you can perform certain repair operations on the underlying FreeBSD system.
 
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