From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 27 17:13:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA06186 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 27 Nov 1997 17:13:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA06180 for ; Thu, 27 Nov 1997 17:13:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id RAA20759; Thu, 27 Nov 1997 17:13:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 17:13:08 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: "Randy A. Katz" cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2.5 Upgrade Question In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19971126182745.03af9230@ccsales.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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