From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 18 23:53:05 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8EBA16A4CE for ; Mon, 18 Apr 2005 23:53:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mxsf10.cluster1.charter.net (mxsf10.cluster1.charter.net [209.225.28.210]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DF4B43D2D for ; Mon, 18 Apr 2005 23:53:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jim-c@charter.net) Received: from mxip18.cluster1.charter.net (mxip18a.cluster1.charter.net [209.225.28.148])j3INr37N006825 for ; Mon, 18 Apr 2005 19:53:03 -0400 Received: from res-68-119-202-215.spa.sc.charter.com (HELO [127.0.0.1]) (68.119.202.215) by mxip18.cluster1.charter.net with ESMTP; 18 Apr 2005 19:53:04 -0400 X-Ironport-AV: i="3.92,111,1112587200"; d="scan'208"; a="1031288022:sNHT333554818" Message-ID: <426447F8.5090209@charter.net> Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 19:51:20 -0400 From: Jim Campbell User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Newbie Question About System Update X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 23:53:05 -0000 I've been away from *NIX a few years. I have been playing with FreeBSD for a week or so now with mixed results. I am using release 4.11 because for some reason 5.3 has problems seeing my hard drives. 4.11, Red Hat Linux and NetBSD have no such trouble. This afternoon I used the "Updating Sources with CVSup" in the FreeBSD Cheat Sheets and everything worked as advertized. I believe that it advised against using "make world" and suggested that I use "19.4.1 The Canonical Way to Update Your System" in the Handbook. I went through the following steps with no problem: # make buildworld # make installworld # mergemaster # reboot After that, I ran into problems. It took me a little while to figure out how to do "boot -s". However, it appears that a lot of the directories aren't mounted and the next scripts aren't in the path. For example, I can't figure out how to do the "mergemaster -p". Any help would be much appreciated. Jim Campbell