Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 08:32:56 -0800 From: David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Moving from 4.7-STABLE to 5.0 Message-ID: <20030108163256.GA539@HAL9000.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <20030108153728.GD89960@ns2.wananchi.com> References: <20030108105259.GA43103@ns2.wananchi.com> <20030108115631.GE82633@tepsi.mindworks.hu> <20030108153728.GD89960@ns2.wananchi.com>
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> * Janos Feher <aries@mindworks.hu> [20030108 16:30]: wrote: > > On Jan 08 2003, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > > > In a nutshell, I am requesting anyone who has gone through > > > this path of updating and willing to share their notes on it > > > to help me out. > > > > Just comment this line out, and do a make installword NOCLEAN=yes. > > Before this, backup the /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin , /usr/sbin/ and /usr/lib . The installworld > > will fail again, because it installed the /bin/sh , but it use the libc.so.4 . Just > > put the saved sh into /bin/sh , and try to make installworld again. At the near end, it > > will fail again, but don't worry. Download the DP2's bootfloppies, and try to boot with > > them. After this, you should do a ln -s /usr/lib/libc.so.5 /usr/lib/libc.so.4 , because > > the ports using the old /usr/lib/libc.so.4 , but they need the system calls built in libc.so.5 > > ... Some of the ports won't run (like mozilla, gdb etc.), but the server applications > > like xdm, mysql, slapd, apache, vim :) will. > > > > Not easy. It works better if you RTFM, instead of removing the anti-footshooting devices on purpose so you can shoot yourself in the foot. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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