Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 11:35:55 -0500 From: Peter Schwenk <schwenk@math.udel.edu> To: Hayden Katzenellenbogen <hayden@tudogs.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrade/Make World Message-ID: <38CFBBEB.CF6F5058@math.udel.edu> References: <38CFB302.1D48B75F@tudogs.com>
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This information has always worked for me, but I'm using 3.x. I would consider this difinitive. http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/makeworld.html Hayden Katzenellenbogen wrote: > To start off I know this mail is going to irritate someone but I need to > know. > > I have been looking through the FreeBSD site and through about 2-3 > hundred artiles on the site about make world. and upgrading. > > I would like to know where I can find the definitve information on how > to do a proper make world and/or and upgrade. > > Most of the info I have found says download the source via cvsup and > then type make world and wait. I have done this 5 times on different > machines with different version of freeBSD all of them have stuffed up > not one did and upgrade. > > I have tried the buildworld installworld option that made an even better > mess as it built everything and stuffed up installing. > > I have found different processes and instructions for doing the upgrade. > > like: > > make buildworld > (build all devices) no docs telling how > (build a new kernel) > (install new kernel) > reboot > make -DNOINFO installworld > make installworld > > I have no idea how to do step 2. > > I would love to know how to upgrade my system it can be as complicated > or as simple as you can make it. > > The reason I want to upgrade is that I ran cvsup about 2 weeks ago to > find that when I try to install a port it then tells me my system is too > old either make world or download an upgrade. > > I downloaded the upgrade eventually got it working but now I find that I > am having tons of trouble installing ports every port is a pain to > install. > > Please help me anyway you can and please do not send the mail saying > read the FAQ. > > Thanks > > Hayden -- PETER SCHWENK | Campus IT Associate 3 Department of Mathematical Sciences | University of Delaware schwenk@math.udel.edu | (302)831-0437 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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