FreeBSD current

[trashthing]

hi. i'm trying to upgrade FreeBSD 5.0 RELEASE to FreeBSD 5.0 CURRENT. what i'm doing is, i go to 'sysinstall,' then 'options' and change '5.0-RELEASE' to '5-LATEST', then click on 'upgrade.' it gets to 2% then gives me a error message saying:

us error (core dumped)
(hostname)# Jun 09:56:02 lycee kernel: pid 531 (sysinstall),
uid 0: exited on signa 10 (core dumped)

do you know what is wrong?

[Alex Cavnar, aka alc6379]

I'm not familiar with the sysinstall upgrade process, but have you seen this link?

The Cutting Edge: Tracking -CURRENT (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge.html)

It has some instructions on how to track -CURRENT. Also, there's a package you can install called cvsupit that will help you upgrade your sources.

But, as the handbook link above will mention, don't blindly track -CURRENT. It has day-to-day changes that may break your system, as it is the development branch.

[xulfralos]

I really think you should learn how to upgrade your system to 5.1-RELEASE via cvsup before you even think about trying to run -CURRENT. I've been using FreeBSD for about three years and have never tried -CURRENT. If you like having a potentially unreliable system, feel free to try it.

-CURRENT is best left to developers and testers...

http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.1R/early-adopter.html

[trashthing]

ok, i'll do that. thanks