Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 10:23:07 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@tera.com> To: Neal Koss <nkoss@dr.com> Cc: Gary Kline <kline@tera.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: upgrading Message-ID: <20001006102307.A14766@athena.sea.tera.com> In-Reply-To: <5.0.0.25.2.20001005225521.0387d080@mail.pv1.ca.home.com>; from Neal Koss on Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 10:58:55PM -0700 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> <20001005175311.A14427@athena.sea.tera.com> <5.0.0.25.2.20001005225521.0387d080@mail.pv1.ca.home.com>
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On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 10:58:55PM -0700, 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:
[[ ... ]]
>
> -------------------------------------------------------
> 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.
Yes, and the reason that this is explicitly mentioned now
may be (I'm not certain) because of my hassles last spring.
I had a new SCSI drive installed, and yet /stand/sysinstall
didn't see it. Finally, someone suggested that I rebuild
sysinstall. I did and that was the required magic.
For some reason, known only to Jorden, prob'ly, sysinstall
is not rebuilt after you've upgraded. It must be done by-hand.
>
> 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.
>
I'm sorry; you didn't see _what_? the menu for doing a binary
upgrade? It may not be there; I only heard of this recently,
tho I've been using FBSD since v2.0.5.
One approach may be to use Netscape and a search engine on
the string: "binary + upgrade + freebsd". If you don't find
anything, asking the list is your next best bet.
gary
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Gary Kline
Cray Inc
Seattle, Washington
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