From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 20 23:22:50 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 7F5E916A4E1 for ; Thu, 20 Jul 2006 23:22:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nick@nickwithers.com) Received: from mail.nickwithers.com (mail.manrags.com [203.219.206.74]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C14AE43D5E for ; Thu, 20 Jul 2006 23:22:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nick@nickwithers.com) Received: from localhost (shmick.shmon.net [10.0.0.252]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.nickwithers.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA4B43AA8F; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 09:22:38 +1000 (EST) Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 09:22:38 +1000 From: Nick Withers To: nectar76 Message-Id: <20060721092238.94d66f53.nick@nickwithers.com> In-Reply-To: References: Organization: nickwithers.com X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.6 (GTK+ 2.8.20; i386-portbld-freebsd6.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-nickwithers-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-nickwithers-MailScanner-From: nick@nickwithers.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to update freebsd 5.4 to 6.1 via no Internet and CD or DVD media X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 23:22:50 -0000 On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 16:52:22 +0800 nectar76 wrote: > > Hi, I have a USB WLAN Adapter, and have no idea to work on FreeBSD 5.4, > but there is a driver called p54u (http://prism54.org/newdrivers.html)can > try, but it is recommend to work on FreeBSD 6. > > I done: > 1. download freebsd 6.1 iso and unzip files, want to update system at > local, but failed; Did you try the binary upgrade option (I can't recall exactly what it's called in the sysinstall root menu, if not "Binary upgrade")? > 2. used TortoiseCVS(CVS software for Windows) to download src/ from > Anonymous CVS, copied them to /usr/src on freebsd-5.4, want to 'make > buildworld', but failed; 'make' looks not work as usual; I'd hazard a guess that the files have been transferred with carriage return newlines (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRLF). I imagine that you could install the sources from a 6.1-RELEASE CD onto your 5.4-RELEASE system... Have you tried this? -- Nick Withers email: nick@nickwithers.com Web: http://www.nickwithers.com Mobile: +61 414 397 446