From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 21 19:36:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sage-american.com (sage-american.com [216.122.141.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46C8A37B401 for ; Sun, 21 Oct 2001 19:36:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sageone (ppp-208-191-234-9.dialup.crchtx.swbell.net [208.191.234.9]) by sage-american.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id VAA28467; Sun, 21 Oct 2001 21:35:33 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20011021213603.00f40ae8@mail.sage-american.com> X-Sender: jacks@mail.sage-american.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2001 21:36:03 -0500 To: "Jonathan M. Slivko" , "'Stanley Hopcroft'" , From: jacks@sage-american.com Subject: RE: How to upgrade from 3.2-RELEASE to 4.3-RELEASE (or recovering from failed upgrade) In-Reply-To: <000e01c15a9b$9e9c03e0$6501a8c0@sioux> References: <20011022113842.A590@IPAustralia.Gov.AU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" 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 Can you run restore of old system from your backup... and then start over...??? At 09:48 PM 10.21.2001 -0400, Jonathan M. Slivko wrote: >Did you try doing an FTP install from floppy disks? -- Jonathan > >--------------------------------------------------- >Jonathan Slivko - 4EverMail.COM - www.4evermail.com > Web Hosting - Web Desgin - UNIX Shell Accounts > jslivko@4EverMail.com - Phone: (212) 663-1109 > > >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG] On Behalf Of Stanley >Hopcroft >Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2001 9:39 PM >To: Questions@FreeBSD.ORg >Subject: How to upgrade from 3.2-RELEASE to 4.3-RELEASE (or recovering >from failed upgrade) > >Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, > >Please would you help me recover from a failed upgrade of 3.2-RELEASE to > >4.3-RELEASE ? > >The situation is a Gateway 366 Solo 9000 laptop with 3.2-RELEASE using >'wd' major devices. > >The sysinstall upgrade failed at the last point (when trying to copy the > >new kernel) because the root partition (32MB H) did not have enough >size. > >Since then I have manually booted kernel.GENERIC (from 4.3-R which was >copied) and have a booting system (sym linking /modules and /tmp to /usr > >has made enough space in / for both kernel and kernel.GENERIC) > >However. > >. the machine now, while having upgraded from the CD, no longer >recognises the CD, despite the device driver probe finding acd0 and - >until recently - allowing cd9660 mounts on /dev/acd0c. > >. if I try and change the kernel definition from >ata atadisk atapicd atapifd to only ata or ata0 and ata1 the kernel will > >no longer boot because it can't find the root partion on /dev/ad0 (in >the booting system /etc/fstab has wd0s2 entries - dual boot machine) > >So at the moment I have no CD and therefore it is difficult to even >think of reinstalling or running upgrade again (apart from using NFS). > >Is there anyway I can correct the CD problem ? > >Thank you, > >Yours sincerely > >-- >------------------------------------------------------------------------ >Stanley Hopcroft IP Australia >Network Specialist >+61 2 6283 3189 +61 2 6281 1353 (FAX) >Stanley.Hopcroft@IPAustralia.Gov.AU >------------------------------------------------------------------------ >Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent >revolution inevitable. > -- John F. Kennedy > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > Best regards, Jack L. Stone, Server Admin Sage-American http://www.sage-american.com jacks@sage-american.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message