From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 11 22:44:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from swan.prod.itd.earthlink.net (swan.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.120.123]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE53937B7C9 for ; Sun, 11 Jun 2000 22:44:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from egravel@earthlink.net) Received: from earthlink.net (hybrid-024-221-117-152.phoenix.speedchoice.com [24.221.117.152]) by swan.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3-EL_1_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA21896 for ; Sun, 11 Jun 2000 22:44:22 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <39447959.D9C9E185@earthlink.net> Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 22:47:05 -0700 From: Emmanuel Gravel X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Upgrade woes Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have 3.3 release installed on a P90 with 32 MB of RAM. Fairly basic install. Tried upgrading to 4.0 in these ways: 1- cvsup the source and make buildworld 2- /stand/sysinstall with FTP set to ftp.freebsd.org and release set to /.0/FreeBSD/release/i386/4.0-RELEASE Problems in the first case: often had compiler crashes (signal 11, signal 10 and signal 4). Got it finally working after running with -DNOCLEAN -DNOGAMES. Then tried installworld and it crashed midway, unrecoverable (finally froze). Had to reinstall 3.3 from CD's (minimal, saved most of my config). Problems in the second case: also ended up crashing mid-way leaving me with a completely unstable system. As when after the installworld, even the shell core dumped (so did df, du, bash, getty, most everything crashed). Had to wipe the system (two HD's, so I had partial backup) but it was still a pain. Now resorting to downloading the 4.0 release ISO to burn a copy. However it still doesn't explain why I'm getting so much trouble upgrading the system. I was able (on different systems, however) to do the troublesome upgrade from 2.2.7 to 3.0 last year, and that seemed to go without too much trouble compared to this. Would anyone have any idea whatsoever why buildworld kept crashing, installworld failed miserably and left me with an unstable system, and downloading the binary install with FTP from the main site left my system in even worse state? All I want to do is understand what's happening so I don't repeat the same mistakes over and over mindlessly. I mean, how hard can it be to upgrade FreeBSD from 3.x to 4.x? What am I missing? Or is it just something that can't be helped with my system? Oh! another weird thing I saw was on bootup, the bootstraps seemed to detect disks 2 and 3 as the C drive, and gave the D drive disk 4... I'm not even sure what those messages are, but then again I haven't even started digging into it. Now, after a wipe/reinstall, it shows only the three drives (A,C,D) instead of 4 (A,C,C,D). Thanks in advance, Emmanuel Gravel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message