Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 20:27:19 -0500 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> To: Chris Byrnes <chris@jeah.net>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: upgrade 3.4 to 4.0 Message-ID: <394830F7.21F4C850@math.missouri.edu> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10006142013590.49082-100000@awww.jeah.net>
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Chris Byrnes wrote: > > To update from 3.x to 4.0 stable > -------------------------------- > <see notes below> [3] > cd /usr/src > <see notes below> [2] > make buildworld > cd sbin/mknod > make install > cd ../../sys/modules > make install > <follow directions to build/install a kernel> > <follow rebuild disk /dev entries above> [1] > reboot > <in single user> > cd /usr/src > cd gnu/usr.bin/texinfo/install-info > make install > cd ../../../.. > make installworld [5] > mergemaster [4] > reboot > <multi-user> > > I hate to keep asking you questions, but like.. I cant login to the > machine in single-user mode.. it's a co-located box.. is there a way to > get around the things you have to do in single-user mode? > I accidently didn't boot into single user mode at that time, and I found the machine unusable. I don't remember why. It might have been that the passwords did not work. But I think it might have been something else. -- Stephen Montgomery-Smith Department of Mathematics, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211 Phone 573-882-4540, fax 573-882-1869 http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen stephen@math.missouri.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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