Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 14:45:28 -0500 From: Joshua Holland <josh@bitstream.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading to 4,4-RELEASE Message-ID: <p05001911b7ea55763cd6@[10.0.1.100]> In-Reply-To: <004f01c15161$6fd08a60$6d36120a@comsys.ntukpi.kiev.ua> References: <p0500190fb7e991f41dc0@[10.0.1.100]> <004f01c15161$6fd08a60$6d36120a@comsys.ntukpi.kiev.ua>
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Do I need lots of hard drive space? Can I delete stuff before running CVSup (like the existing ports collection, after installing CVSup)? >----- Original Message ----- >From: Joshua Holland <josh@bitstream.net> >Newsgroups: lucky.freebsd.questions >Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 9:55 AM >Subject: Upgrading to 4,4-RELEASE > > >> I just tried upgrading from 4.3 to 4.4 with /stand/sysinstall. It >> went through the process and at the end there were messages saying it >> couldn't find /etc/fstab and /etc/groups. It let me continue, and >> said the upgrade was successful. I rebooted, and it couldn't find >> kernel, and booted off of kernel.old (/etc/fstab and /etc/groups were >> there). /etc/upgrade did not exist. uname returns 4.3. My disk >> space went form 52% to 90% used. Were my binaries upgraded? Where >> is the new kernel? How can I check these things? Can I just >> download 4.4 src and compile a kernel now? >> > >Why not just CVSup STABLE branch and compile whole system >from sources? Take an example for CVSup configuration file >from the /usr/share/examples/cvsup directoty for STABLE branche, >install cvsup from package and update your system with "make >buildworld" and "make installworld". Before clean content of the >/usr/obj directory. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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