Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 17:36:21 -0500 (EST) From: alissa bader <molbloo@interport.net> To: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: makeworld problems Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.990128173020.14874C-100000@interport.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901282202320.25507-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu>
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On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Jason C. Wells wrote: > Jordan Hubbard just made a recommendation on -stable that people not try > to do this unless they are seriously committed to being on the bleeding > edge. YMMV. Well, i'm not so much interested on being on the bleeding edge here, it's just that I would like to have a more current version of the operating system. > It's not that 3.0-stable is not stable. It's that upgrading and switching > to elf at the same time is yielding some difficulties. > > If you must persist, I recommend grabbing the 3.0-RELEASE install floppy > and doing a binary upgrade to 3.0R. Then go to 3.0 stable from there. hm....I'm about to purchase The Complete FreeBSD, but I wasn't sure if I should get the cdrom set along with it. I guess I will now. Just for backup's sake. > Beware! You need new boot blocks. You need an ELF kernel. You need to fix > some devices which have changed names. > > I think waiting until 3.1 is a very good idea. Is there a way I can do a "make world deinstall" (ok, for lack of a better phrase I'll call it that). What's the best way I can get my machine back to the way it was before I tried all this? It seems to at least boot up okay, but I'm not sure if I should look for any further problems with it. thanks! --Alissa To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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