From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 10 23:44:59 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F2F316A4CE for ; Tue, 10 May 2005 23:44:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (CPE0050040655c8-CM00111ae02aac.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [69.194.102.111]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD34743D8E for ; Tue, 10 May 2005 23:44:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 9BBFC514C9; Tue, 10 May 2005 16:44:57 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 16:44:57 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: db Message-ID: <20050510234457.GA66735@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <200505110143.18017.db@traceroute.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="qDbXVdCdHGoSgWSk" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200505110143.18017.db@traceroute.dk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.3->5.4 (ia32) binary upgrade problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 23:44:59 -0000 --qDbXVdCdHGoSgWSk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 01:43:17AM +0000, db wrote: > Hi all >=20 > I have tried this with two cd's on two computers (both running 5.3).=20 > I've downloaded 5.4-disc1 > run /stand/sysinstall > Upgrade (gives me a warning saying the cd is 5.4-release and what I have = is=20 > 5.3-security) and then: > "Unable to transfer the base distribution from acd0" >=20 > So now what? My securelevel is -1 and all filesystems are mounted "rw". You need to run the 5.4 sysinstall (e.g. by booting the CD), not the random old sysinstall you have installed that knows nothing about 5.4. Kris --qDbXVdCdHGoSgWSk Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCgUd5Wry0BWjoQKURAv0GAJ4qe/bkhO9aZMgffBaCOPECKtSN2gCg+R8M HIajtfY6SfNjiBRKAcbdPSA= =eVVc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --qDbXVdCdHGoSgWSk--