From owner-freebsd-current Sun Nov 4 3:46:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from shell.reiteration.net (pc-62-31-233-77-se.blueyonder.co.uk [62.31.233.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B18E37B406 for ; Sun, 4 Nov 2001 03:46:42 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jfm@localhost) by shell.reiteration.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fA4Bkee64271 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Sun, 4 Nov 2001 11:46:40 GMT (envelope-from jfm) Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2001 11:46:35 +0000 From: John To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: guide to downgrading from 5.0 to 4.4-STABLE Message-ID: <20011104114635.A64203@shell.reiteration.net> References: <20011102135827.E52736@shell.reiteration.net> <200111021435.fA2EZeu51865@bunrab.catwhisker.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <200111021435.fA2EZeu51865@bunrab.catwhisker.org>; from david@catwhisker.org on Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 06:35:40AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 06:35:40AM -0800, David Wolfskill wrote: > >Aye; feel free to holler if you find your machine wedged. It can be >Very Helpful to have another "fallback" machine for various reasons.... > Hi Well, after a couple of false starts, managed to downgrade successfully and so far, everything (including X) seems to be functioning. I couldn't do a binary install as the scsi cdrom, whilst detecting the root partition on the cd, wouldnt boot from it, and I didn't have access to a floppy drive or cable. I did have a spare atapi cdrom, but it wasn't a bootable device. (What puzzles me is that the scsi cdrw and cdrom are well supported and booting from scsi was enabled as primary in the bios, but that's for another day). Anyhow, removed /usr/src, /usr/doc and switched the cvsupfile tag from . to 4.4, cvsupped everything down and followed the instructions in UPDATING as if I was upgrading from 4.0 to 4.4, apart from initially doing a make clean in /usr/src make buildworld proceeded without a hitch as did make buildkernel and installkernel. make installworld was toast because /modules didnt exsist, made that dir and restarted installworld, it installed cleanly (then mergemaster of course) (yes it does help to have more than one freebsd box :) fingers crossed he box seems to be working fine. I would expect some programs not to work because of dependency failure, but havent seen that yet thanks for your help -- John - jfm@reiteration.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message