Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 15:40:33 -0600 From: "Curtis W. Rendon" <rendon@spec.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: installing 3.1-RELEASE on a 2.1.5 system Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.19990218154033.007a8940@charon>
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I am trying to either upgrade or new install 3.2-RELEASE onto a system that acts as a www server that is currently running FreeBSD 2.1.5. The hardware is a Dell-486 based machine, 32 MB RAM, 2 (sometimes 3) SCSI hard drives (2*6GB drives), and QIC tape, vga controller, and a 3.5" and 5.25 " floppy. Basically I have made a copy of the original sd0 SCSI to a new drive, have downloaded the distributions to sd1, am disconnecting the old drive and setting the new sd0 to LUN 0 on the SCSI chain, and am attempting to upgrade or install from the distribution on sd1. Unfortunately the new system renames the SCSI's to da0, and da1, and does not seem to recognize the old partitions at all. When upgrade puts me into the label editor, I attempt to define mount points, and the system proclaims a bogus partition and reboots. I tried tarring the distribution to tape, and commence a fresh install from there (having good backups of the original drive contents), but I get cpio errors while trying to read /dev/rsa0 (which used to be /dev/rst0). Oh yes, trying a ftp install, ethernet driver ed1, for the Linksys ethernet card, is no longer available. I have tried changing the parameters of ed0, but I am not clear that it is working. I don't see any error messages on VT2, the card is seen at boot time, but I am getting address resolution failures when I try to install from ftp. Any help would be greatly appreciated... Curtis W. Rendon ---- Curtis W. Rendon -- Geologics rendon@spec.com 512-479-7732 X2194 | SPEC | Carpe Diem: Seize the day! 101 West 6th St.,ste200 | Carpe Beerum: Seize the Beer! Austin, Texas 78701 | Beerum Carpe: Get the goldfish drunk! #include <disclaimer.h> | Carpe carpe: Seize the goldfish! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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