From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 5 9:49: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7500137B427 for ; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 09:49:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from owt.com (owt-207-41-94-232.owt.com [207.41.94.232]) by rutger.owt.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA08992; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 09:49:00 -0800 Message-ID: <3C601B0B.405@owt.com> Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 09:48:59 -0800 From: Kent Stewart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011128 Netscape6/6.2.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cliff Sarginson Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: where is sysinstall? References: <5.1.0.14.0.20020204234131.02476ec0@mail.telerama.com> <1012885588.5249.20.camel@agent-orange.site-fx.net> <20020205090535.GA495@raggedclown.net> <3C5FB079.70508@owt.com> <20020205133448.GC1349@raggedclown.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Cliff Sarginson wrote: > On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 02:14:17AM -0800, Kent Stewart wrote: > >> >>Cliff Sarginson wrote: >> >> >>>On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 09:06:28PM -0800, James A. Peltier wrote: >>> >>> >>>>you have to upgrade sysinstall from sources each time. it's not >>>>included in the make world >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>Oh, I didn't know that either. >>>You mean the recent cvsup I did of 4.5-Release, followed by >>>make world, kernel etc etc, will *not* have updated sysinstall ? >>> >>>Can you amplify please ? >>> >> >>Did you try looking at the date on /stand/sysinstall. Mine is still 25 >>Sep 2001. This thread just reminded me to update it. >> >> > Mine sinisterly says 18 Sep 2001. > Mmm, is this a bit of an oversight, or a well kept secret ? > (some smarty is going to tell me it was discussed in a thread in 1997 or > is in the handbook at page 97..I feel sure...). I was certain that there was a discussion of adding it to the system but the dates don't back that up. I did a "locate sysinstall" and the single executable version is all that showed up. It was always something you did after finishing a system upgrade. > > How do you do it ? > Does it need it ? Well, if you have used it since 18 Sep, I would say you need it. About the only time I use it is when I upgrade something. For example, the gui setup of an HD. Since the lastest code is always sitting in /usr/src/release/sysinstall, I just make it before I go to use it. I also have a tendancy to upgrate it after a new release. I hadn't done that this time. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message