From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jun 24 1:57:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from angel.double-barrel.be (mail.double-barrel.be [194.7.102.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D204915220 for ; Thu, 24 Jun 1999 01:57:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mvergall@double-barrel.be) Received: from ws3.double-barrel.be (ws3.double-barrel.be [194.7.102.30]) by angel.double-barrel.be (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA00729; Thu, 24 Jun 1999 10:56:52 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (mvergall@localhost) by ws3.double-barrel.be (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian/GNU) with SMTP id KAA05910; Thu, 24 Jun 1999 10:56:37 +0200 X-Authentication-Warning: ws3.double-barrel.be: mvergall owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 10:56:37 +0200 (MEST) From: "Michael C. Vergallen" To: Raymond Wiker Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2.8->3.2 woes In-Reply-To: <14193.61136.502685.943134@foobar.orion.no> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I did a clean install because the transition of 2.2.8 to 3.1 was hell because the core team changed the format of /etc files... I found that a new install from scratch was worth it. Michael --- Michael C. Vergallen A.k.A. Mad Mike, Sportstraat 28 http://www.double-barrel.be/mvergall/ B 9000 Gent ftp://ftp.double-barrel.be/pub/linux/ Belgium tel : 32-9-2227764 Fax : 32-9-2224976 On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, Raymond Wiker wrote: > Jordan K. Hubbard writes: > > > > > In message <46535.930200710@zippy.cdrom.com> "Jordan K. Hubbard" writes: > > > : Absolutely. Whether you're going from 2.2.x to 3.x or 2.2.x to 4.0, > > > : it's the same set of problems. :) > > > > > > I meant "if I have -current of a few days ago, should I use it to > > > upgrade to -current as of a few minutes ago?" > > > > > > > No, upgrade should only be used to jump between branches. > > A slightly different problem: when I upgraded my home machine > from 2.2.8 to 3.1, i did "install" instead of "upgrade"[1]. Since then I've > had some trouble with a.out libraries :-) > > Can I do the "make aout-to-elf" part now, or can somebody give > me a short recipe for what needs to be done? > > //Raymond. > > Footnotes: > [1] Bad idea, which caused me some grief with the contents of /etc :-) > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message