From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 5 23:53:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from 2711.dynacom.net (2711.dynacom.net [206.107.213.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 151E337B502 for ; Thu, 5 Oct 2000 23:53:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from urx.com (dsl1-160.dynacom.net [206.159.132.160]) by 2711.dynacom.net (Build 101 8.9.3/NT-8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA01324; Thu, 05 Oct 2000 23:53:08 -0700 Message-ID: <39DD76D4.FE1A5251@urx.com> Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 23:53:08 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Reply-To: kstewart@urx.com Organization: Dynacom X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Neal Koss Cc: Gary Kline , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: upgrading References: <5.0.0.25.2.20001005165319.034a9460@mail.pv1.ca.home.com> <5.0.0.25.2.20001005165319.034a9460@mail.pv1.ca.home.com> <5.0.0.25.2.20001005225521.0387d080@mail.pv1.ca.home.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Neal Koss wrote: > > At 05:53 PM 10/5/2000 -0700, you wrote: > >On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 04:53:32PM -0700, Neal Koss wrote: > > > It would seem that I have some kind of hardware problem since I keep > > coming > > > up with a signal 11 at random times during the 'cvsup'. I have read the > > > support docs, but I find it hard to believe (I know, I'm stubborn). Before > > > I start pulling thinds out, I would like to try to upgrade from 3.3 to > > > 4.1.1 some other way. Isn't there a way to take the standard 4.1.1 RELEASE > > > iso-image CD (which I have already downloaded and created) and upgrade my > > > system from that. There is a file called UPGRADE.TXT that talks about a > > > program called 'sysinstall' (and you need the one for the NEW system, not > > > the old one) but I can't seem to find it on the CD. Can someone give me a > > > step by step here or point me in the right direction. TIA > > > > > > > You night want to consider a binary upgrade. A fellow engineer > > at Duke mentioned this to me... after I was mostly done with > > my cvsup upgrade. One day I (or someone) has to outline the > > details of a binary upgrade. > > > > You can get started by as root, typing > > > > /stand/sysinstall > > > > and poking around among the menus. Your 3.3 /stand/sysinstall > > should still be valid; if you want the newest it should be > > on the CD that you pulled down. > > > > It shouldn't be this difficult. Got to be a set of cookbook > > commands that can be typed in and let run. It is on my to-do > > list for publication, perhaps. > > > > If my mumbling isn't enough help you'll probably hear from > > others. good luck and keep us posted, > > > > gary > > ------------------------------------------------------- > Well, the first paragraph in the UPGRADE.TXT file on every version says, > "Using a mismatched version of sysinstall is almost guaranteed to cause > problems and has been known to leave systems in an unusable state. The > most commonly made mistake in this regard is the use of an old copy of > /stand/sysinstall from an existing installation to upgrade to a newer > version of FreeBSD. This is NOT recommended. > > And I really did search the CD that I pulled down and I just don't see it. > I am really hesitant to use the 3.3 version considering the warning. You have a 4.1.1 version on the cdrom. You may just need to boot from a floppy. Kent > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Neal Koss, MD nkoss@dr.com Eudora Pro 5.0 > http://www.healinx.com/doc/kossmd > > http://www.checkthegrid.com > Before you go to the movies...Check The Grid! > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message