Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 17:13:08 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "Randy A. Katz" <randyk@ccsales.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2.5 Upgrade Question Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971127171029.20686M-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19971126182745.03af9230@ccsales.com>
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On Wed, 26 Nov 1997, Randy A. Katz wrote: > I recently upgraded from 2.2.2 to 2.2.5 and it worked. I have a few questions: > > 1. It seems to wipe out certain directories (/usr/local/lib, > /usr/local/etc), is there a list of the directories that get wiped out? Sysinstall does not destroy anything. It should leave /usr/local/ completely untouched. > 2. Certain things just aren't there anymore (tclsh needed to be installed > for addgroup to work). Like what? There is some tcl stuff in the system distribution, it may have been overwritten. > 3. If I did an installation and didn't get sources but wanted them, how to > install the sources later? How much space do the sources take up? Simply copy the source archives you want, then run cat sname.* | tar xzf - from /usr/src. My sys tree is 22 megabytes, and that includes a compile directory and extras. > 4. After the installation the kernel was 2.2.2 I assume I need to configure > the LOCAL/MYKERNEL and compile...is this correct? That is a bug; /kernel.GENERIC isn't liked to /kernel. Building your own kernel isn't a bad idea though. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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