From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 26 20:46:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from localhost.meer.net (pm3a-15.meer.net [209.157.137.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F1261559F for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 20:46:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from alanchar@meer.net) Received: (from alan@localhost) by localhost.meer.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA05944; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 20:46:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from alan) Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 20:46:04 -0800 (PST) From: Alan Char Message-Id: <200001270446.UAA05944@localhost.meer.net> To: BJohnson@gainesville.usda.ufl.edu, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: FreeBSD 3.4 Upgrade crashese In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks. It was definitely the problem in the errata. I got the new mfsroot.flp and was fine. First time I've ever needed to go to the errata (didn't even know about it) and I've been doing upgrades from CD-ROM since 2.0! Thanks also for the source tip, but I'd just as soon avoid maintaining a build. That's why I subscribe to the CD-ROM. :-) --Alan Bob Johnson wrote: > What method did you use to do the upgrade? It sounds like > you tried to do a fresh install of 3.4-RELEASE. There is a > bug in the sysinstall program for 3.4-RELEASE that causes > a signal 11 for some choices. See the errata file at > ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/3.4-RELEASE/ERRATA.TXT > for more information about how to deal with it. Basically, > you can either use different menu choices to accomplish the > same thing, or you can download a fixed version of the > MFSROOT floppy. > > To upgrade from 3.3 to 3.4, though, it seems to me that it > might be better to CVSUP the latest source, then build a new > system. That way you get all of the latest updates (since the > 3.4 release) and you don't lose your configuration files. > If you don't have hard drive space for the source, or > time for a slow processor to build the system (about a day on > a 486), that might not be an option for you. Chapter 17 of the > FreeBSD handbook explains how to do this: > http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/cutting-edge.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message