From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 21 20:56: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.screaming.net (smtp.screaming.net [212.49.224.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC7B537BC95 for ; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 20:55:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dozprompt@onsea.com) Received: from merlin.onsea.com (dyn5-ras32.froglike.co.uk [212.49.255.5]) by smtp.screaming.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id EAA00524; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 04:56:47 GMT Received: from localhost (dozprompt@localhost) by merlin.onsea.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id EAA08460; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 04:56:00 GMT (envelope-from dozprompt@onsea.com) X-Authentication-Warning: merlin.onsea.com: dozprompt owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 04:56:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Cliff Rowley To: Christiaan Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Big problems. In-Reply-To: <000001bf93a3$cd7c7020$8ca522c4@securenet> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I am installing FreeBSD 3.4 but the bootdisks dont work. > I have downloaded them from the several biggest FTP sites. > I am installing FreeBSD 4.0 but the bootdisks dont work. > I have downloaded them from the serveral biggest FTP SITES. Any chance you could be a little more verbose? > When I did a cvsup for FBSD 3.4 to 4.0 it broke my whole box. You obviously failed to research. It's quite common for an upgrade path between major versions of any software to be tricky or broken. In this case, it's not broken, but it's not particularly easy. A simple mailing list search and a read of /usr/src/UPDATING would have told you what is required to upgrade. > Its a highly important mail server and its completly and utterly broken. The more fool you for tampering with a production system. You shouldnt be installing x.0 software onto it anyway. Until a piece of software reaches x.1, it is still considered to be teething. > I wiped it already in attempt of an reinstall. > I never ever had problems like this with FBSD 3.1, 3.2, 3.3. See answers above. > Why now? User error. Cliff Rowley - while (!asleep) { code(); } To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message