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Date:      Wed, 1 Dec 2004 00:23:15 +0100
From:      Christian Hiris <4711@chello.at>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        Stacey Roberts <stacey@vickiandstacey.com>
Subject:   Re: How to capture "make installworld" error during migration from 5.1 to 5-Stable?
Message-ID:  <200412010023.15447.4711@chello.at>
In-Reply-To: <20041130224957.GW12622@crom.vickiandstacey.com>
References:  <20041130224957.GW12622@crom.vickiandstacey.com>

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On Tuesday 30 November 2004 23:49, Stacey Roberts wrote:
> Hello,
>      I'm trying to migrate a newly (fresh install from CD-Rom Set)
> installed 5.1 to 5-Stable, using the migration guide at
> http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.3R/migration-guide.html.
>
> The previous attempts failed with the same error at step 15:
> Install the new userland utilities with:
>
> # cd /usr/src
> # make installworld
>
> Now, I'm in single-user mode at this stage, and would like to capture the
> error so that I could post to the list for assistance, please. How can I do
> this?

See http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html

Chapter "19.4.7.1 Saving the Output" describes how to use the script command: 

 # script /var/tmp/mw.out
 Script started, output file is /var/tmp/mw.out   
 # make TARGET
 ... compile, compile, compile ...     
 # exit
 Script done, ...

Cheers,
ch

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