Date: Sun, 29 Mar 1998 22:42:36 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: John Reynolds~ <jreynold@sedona.intel.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cheapbytes 2.2.1 CD-Rom hosed? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980329224115.23543U-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <13590.53049.226156.832046@hip186.ch.intel.com>
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On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, John Reynolds~ wrote: > I recently got the FreeBSD 2.2.5 CD-ROM from "cheapbytes". They claimed it > was 100% "compatible" with the Walnut creek CD-ROM installation (minus some > insignificant stuff that had to be deleted to fit on 1 disk). > > I went through the "upgrade" procedure after making the boot disk, etc. > (I did not install from scratch but used the "upgrade" feature of the install > program). Okay. > Everything went OK, it did all of its work, extracted bin, man, src, etc., > put me out to a shell to "merge" my etc and the saved copy of /etc and then > I rebooted. Everything rebooted "ok" -EXCEPT- that during boot it says > that it is booting 2.2.1 (which was what I was upgrading from--yes, I bought > the 2.2.1 CD-ROM before it was conveniently "replaced" by 2.2.2). I thought > "weird." Uname -a reports "2.2.1" also. This is normal. The upgrade procedure doesn't replace your kernel; it leaves it to you to build and install the new kernel. The new GENERIC is supplied as kernel.GENERIC though. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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