From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 31 11:22: 3 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6476437B401 for ; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 11:22:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (rwcrmhc52.attbi.com [216.148.227.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D568A43E4A for ; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 11:22:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com[24.147.188.198]) by rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (rwcrmhc52) with ESMTP id <2003013119220105200dupske>; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 19:22:01 +0000 Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.188.198] (may be forged)) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0VJM09s057395 for ; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 14:22:00 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h0VJM03x057392; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 14:22:00 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: be-well.ilk.org: lowell set sender to freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org using -f To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sysinstall suddenly quitting References: From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 31 Jan 2003 14:22:00 -0500 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <44wukl2kh3.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 19 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Randy Schultz writes: > Hey all, > > I've got a 4.6 system that I'm trying to get to 4.7. I've dropped on the > sysinstall from 4.7(per the docs). I run it as > "/stand/sysinstall installUpgrade". When I get to the "Choose Installation > Media" screen I go into Options to change the Release Name. Regardless of > what I do on this screen, in fact even if I do nothing at all, when I press > 'Q' to quit sysinstall exits, dropping right to the commandline. On the > screen it says "chflags'ing old binaries - please wait". There doesn't > seem to be anything about this in docs or list/newsgroup archives and I've > tried a number of different things - making sure I'm root, perms on chflags, > getting chflags from the 4.7 dist, even different term types and keyboards > (hey - maybe there was some weird key bounce going on ;). I'm guessing > PEBCAK but am not sure where to look. This shouldn't matter, but what happens if you actually boot from the install floppies instead? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message