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Date:      Thu, 27 Nov 1997 17:13:08 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        "Randy A. Katz" <randyk@ccsales.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 2.2.5 Upgrade Question
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.971127171029.20686M-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19971126182745.03af9230@ccsales.com>

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On Wed, 26 Nov 1997, Randy A. Katz wrote:

> I recently upgraded from 2.2.2 to 2.2.5 and it worked. I have a few questions:
> 
> 1. It seems to wipe out certain directories (/usr/local/lib,
> /usr/local/etc), is there a list of the directories that get wiped out?

Sysinstall does not destroy anything.  It should leave /usr/local/
completely untouched.

> 2. Certain things just aren't there anymore (tclsh needed to be installed
> for addgroup to work).

Like what?  There is some tcl stuff in the system distribution, it may
have been overwritten.

> 3. If I did an installation and didn't get sources but wanted them, how to
> install the sources later? How much space do the sources take up?

Simply copy the source archives you want, then run

cat sname.* | tar xzf - 

from /usr/src.  

My sys tree is 22 megabytes, and that includes a compile directory and
extras.

> 4. After the installation the kernel was 2.2.2 I assume I need to configure
> the LOCAL/MYKERNEL and compile...is this correct?

That is a bug; /kernel.GENERIC isn't liked to /kernel.  Building your own
kernel isn't a bad idea though.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major





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