From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 15 9:42:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gallagher.chicago.il.us (el01-24-131-151-85.ce.mediaone.net [24.131.151.85]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39AD837C166 for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 09:40:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from burke@gallagher.chicago.il.us) Received: from fatman2k (fatman2.burke.org [192.168.0.2]) by gallagher.chicago.il.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA28026; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 11:39:35 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from burke@gallagher.chicago.il.us) Message-ID: <007e01bf8ea5$4ef12dc0$0200a8c0@fatman2k> From: "Burke Gallagher" To: "Hayden Katzenellenbogen" Cc: References: <38CFB302.1D48B75F@tudogs.com> Subject: Re: Upgrade/Make World Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 11:38:42 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG the web page that helped me most (I have it printed out and use it as a checklist every time I make world was written by Nik Clayton "Using make world to rebuild your system". This was recently added to the FreeBSD Handbook as chapter 18.4 http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/makeworld.html. the only thing I do differently is to use 'mergermaster' to update /etc and /dev (section 18.4.6) good luck burke ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hayden Katzenellenbogen" To: Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2000 9:57 AM Subject: Upgrade/Make World > 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 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message