Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 11:09:04 -0500 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> To: Rezamys <rezath@tm.net.my> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: upgrade 3.1 release to 3.2 stable via CTM Message-ID: <37667AA0.7A6F3DD4@math.missouri.edu> References: <003401beb6c9$e14aa5c0$081603c8@tmmaster> <3765E002.7FD1C821@math.missouri.edu> <00f901beb70c$b2cfb580$081603c8@tmmaster>
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Rezamys wrote: > > Hello Stephen, > Thanks for the swift response. I will follow the advise given. However > there's this thing bothering me. > The question is: You say; "make sure that usr/src" directory is complete > empty". If one were to go there one will find many other directories inside. > For example in my usr/src i will see things likebin/, contrib/,games/, sys/ > and many others... > Maybe u mean delete all the directories inside src? If my understanding is > correct I'll need to spend most of the time deleting all those directories > under src. It's a lot. And without these directories would it corrupt the OS > as complete program? > Please highlight. > TQ Yes, I mean delete all those subdirectories. But it is not so hard: cd /usr/src rm -rf * will do it. Well, it will take a little time, maybe a minute or so (unless you have softupdates in which case it will be a few seconds). Applying ctm will recreate all these directories. The OS needs nothing in /usr/src to operate. (If you have a custom kernel in sys/i386/conf, maybe you want to save it first.) -- Stephen Montgomery-Smith stephen@math.missouri.edu 307 Math Science Building stephen@showme.missouri.edu Department of Mathematics stephen@missouri.edu University of Missouri-Columbia Columbia, MO 65211 USA Phone (573) 882 4540 Fax (573) 882 1869 http://math.missouri.edu/~stephen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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