Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 10:56:06 -0600 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> To: Ralph <wildjeep01@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strangeness with FreeBSD 4.2 and CVSUP install Message-ID: <419B82A6.2000809@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <20041117163606.40816.qmail@web53405.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20041117163606.40816.qmail@web53405.mail.yahoo.com>
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Ralph wrote: >Hey, I have an ancicent box I've inherited, output of >uname -a is: > bash-2.04# uname -a >FreeBSD dropbox.xxxx.xxxx 4.2-RELEASE FreeBSD >4.2-RELEASE #0: Mon Nov 20 13:02:55 GMT 2000 >jkh@bento.FreeBSD.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC >i386 > > Obviously, she's got a few miles on her, and cvsup >wasn't installed. I downloaded the tarball from the >FreeBSD ftp server, untar'd it, and tried to do a make >install, then got this ugliness: > ><error> > gzip -cn pkg_version.1 > pkg_version.1.gz >===> Installing for pkg_install-20040802 >===> Generating temporary packing list >ln: illegal option -- h >usage: ln [-fisv] file1 file2 > ln [-fisv] file ... directory > link file1 file2 >*** Error code 1 > >Stop in /usr/ports/sysutils/pkg_install. >*** Error code 1 > >Stop in /usr/ports/textproc/sed_inplace. >*** Error code 1 > >Stop in /usr/ports/lang/ezm3. >*** Error code 1 > >Stop in /usr/ports/net/cvsup. > ></error> > >Can someone help? > >Thanks in advance. > > Tried pkg_add? Probably won't work as it's unlikely to find packages dated from that time, but might be worth a shot, as it would only take a second to try. You might try looking around for a cvsup version that's contemporary to the boxen and going from there. But a quick Google doesn't show it to me. OTOH, it's likely to need to be "stepping stoned" quite a bit anyway, so what not backup the data and do a clean install of 4.10 or 5.3? Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P.
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