From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 28 14:36:29 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA27872 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 14:36:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from astor.interport.net (astor.interport.net [199.184.165.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA27867 for ; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 14:36:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from molbloo@interport.net) Received: from interport.net (molbloo@park.nfs.interport.net [205.161.144.2]) by astor.interport.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA26220; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 17:37:38 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (molbloo@localhost) by interport.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA23007; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 17:36:22 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 17:36:21 -0500 (EST) From: alissa bader To: "Jason C. Wells" cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: makeworld problems In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Jason C. Wells wrote: > Jordan Hubbard just made a recommendation on -stable that people not try > to do this unless they are seriously committed to being on the bleeding > edge. YMMV. Well, i'm not so much interested on being on the bleeding edge here, it's just that I would like to have a more current version of the operating system. > It's not that 3.0-stable is not stable. It's that upgrading and switching > to elf at the same time is yielding some difficulties. > > If you must persist, I recommend grabbing the 3.0-RELEASE install floppy > and doing a binary upgrade to 3.0R. Then go to 3.0 stable from there. hm....I'm about to purchase The Complete FreeBSD, but I wasn't sure if I should get the cdrom set along with it. I guess I will now. Just for backup's sake. > Beware! You need new boot blocks. You need an ELF kernel. You need to fix > some devices which have changed names. > > I think waiting until 3.1 is a very good idea. Is there a way I can do a "make world deinstall" (ok, for lack of a better phrase I'll call it that). What's the best way I can get my machine back to the way it was before I tried all this? It seems to at least boot up okay, but I'm not sure if I should look for any further problems with it. thanks! --Alissa To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message