From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 29 22:43:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA27410 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 29 Mar 1998 22:43:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA27402 for ; Sun, 29 Mar 1998 22:43:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA23706; Sun, 29 Mar 1998 22:42:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Sun, 29 Mar 1998 22:42:36 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: John Reynolds~ cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cheapbytes 2.2.1 CD-Rom hosed? In-Reply-To: <13590.53049.226156.832046@hip186.ch.intel.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, John Reynolds~ wrote: > I recently got the FreeBSD 2.2.5 CD-ROM from "cheapbytes". They claimed it > was 100% "compatible" with the Walnut creek CD-ROM installation (minus some > insignificant stuff that had to be deleted to fit on 1 disk). > > I went through the "upgrade" procedure after making the boot disk, etc. > (I did not install from scratch but used the "upgrade" feature of the install > program). Okay. > Everything went OK, it did all of its work, extracted bin, man, src, etc., > put me out to a shell to "merge" my etc and the saved copy of /etc and then > I rebooted. Everything rebooted "ok" -EXCEPT- that during boot it says > that it is booting 2.2.1 (which was what I was upgrading from--yes, I bought > the 2.2.1 CD-ROM before it was conveniently "replaced" by 2.2.2). I thought > "weird." Uname -a reports "2.2.1" also. This is normal. The upgrade procedure doesn't replace your kernel; it leaves it to you to build and install the new kernel. The new GENERIC is supplied as kernel.GENERIC though. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message