Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 16:51:32 +0200 From: Per olof Ljungmark <peo@intersonic.se> To: Jonathan Quist <jcq9000@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Errors Upgrading from 5.4 to 6.2 Message-ID: <46A0CBF4.9080902@intersonic.se> In-Reply-To: <200200.77268.qm@web31012.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <200200.77268.qm@web31012.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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Jonathan Quist wrote: > I'm attempting to upgrade my system from 5.4 to 6.2 using sysinstall > after booting from the 6.2 cdrom. After I identify the mount points > on the existing slices and exit, I get this message: "Couldn't stat > directory /mnt/dev", followed by this message: "Unable to mount DEVFS > (error 5), and it won't continue with the upgrade. There isn't a > filesystem mounted at /mnt, and /dev is a just directory under the > root filesystemm, not a separate filesystem. Is there something I'm > doing wrong, or do I have something misconfigured? Any advice, > suggestions, pointers would be greatly appreciated. I just did what you are trying to by following the instructions in /usr/src/UPDATING (from 6.2 of course, in the end of the doc). Went without a hitch. /per olof
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