I assume that when you said not reinstalling means that you dont do a format/clean reinstall from medium. I also assume you have cvsup installed. If you dont have cvsup installed just do a<span style="font-style: italic;">
pkg_add -<span style="font-style: italic;">v</span>r cvsup</span> or use <span style="font-style: italic;">sysinstall </span>to install it<br><br>- backup your stuffs (i.e your /etc/*, /usr/local/etc/*)<br><br>- use cvsup to update the latest srcs
<br><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="font-style: italic;">> cvsup -g -L2 -z /etc/cvsupfile</span><br></div><br>- say your prayers :p<br><br>- update the kernel <br><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="font-style: italic;">
> cd /usr/src</span><br style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;">> make buildkernel</span><br style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;">> make installkernel</span><br></div>
<br>- build and install the binaries<div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="font-style: italic;">> cd /usr/src</span><br style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;">> make buildworld</span><br style="font-style: italic;">
<span style="font-style: italic;">> make installworld<span style="font-style: italic;"><br></span></span></div><br>- here my cvsupfile<br># this is /etc/cvsupfile<br># modded by rosli 20060216<br><br>#*default host=<a href="http://cvsup10.FreeBSD.org">
cvsup10.FreeBSD.org</a><br>#*default host=<a href="http://cvsup.sg.freebsd.org">cvsup.sg.freebsd.org</a><br>*default host=<a href="http://cvsup2.jp.freebsd.org">cvsup2.jp.freebsd.org</a><br>*default base=/var/db<br>*default prefix=/usr
<br>*default release=cvs tag=RELENG_6_1<br>*default delete use-rel-suffix<br>*default compress<br>src-all<br><br>*default release=cvs tag=.<br>ports-all<br><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;">
</span></span># end /etc/cvuspfile<br><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"></span></span><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"></span>
<span style="font-style: italic;"><br></span></span></div>- you might want to also merge your /etc files<br><div style="margin-left: 40px;">drop to single user mode<br><span style="font-style: italic;">> init 1<br>> mount -a
<br>> cd /usr/src<br>> mergemaster<br><br><br></span></div><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"></span></span><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;">
</span></span></div><br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/1/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Paul McKenzie</b> <<a href="mailto:dishae@hotmail.com">dishae@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div>Hi all,<br>
How do i upgrade from Freebsd 6.0 to the latest stable version freebsd 6.1 without reinstalling everything.<br>
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Thanks<br>
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