From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 9 12:25:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 471B615168 for ; Wed, 9 Jun 1999 12:25:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA12624; Wed, 9 Jun 1999 12:25:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 12:25:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Suttipan Limanond Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2.5 to 3.2 updates (CDROM) In-Reply-To: <19990606031526.42983@lymatech.com> 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 On Sun, 6 Jun 1999, Suttipan Limanond wrote: > Hi: > > I am planning to upgrade to 3.2 release using CDROM. Basically, > I have two hard disks, the first one that shares with other OS > contains / and swap, and the second are purely FreeBSD > which have /usr/local and /usr/home partitions. > > 1. My understanding is I can install the 3.2 on the first > disk and bring /usr/local and /usr/home from the second hard > disk in later. Is this correct? Yes. > 2. Will the ports that I have (.aout format) run on 3.2? > Is there any way to make sure they do? Or I just need to > re-install all of them? The upgrade will not fix the libraries, so they will probably break. You have to manually move the a.out libraries into aout/ directories underneath their present location, then edit rc.conf and add them to the ldconfig_aout_paths variable. They should work again on the next reboot. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message