From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 6 11: 6:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc2.occa.home.com (ha1.rdc2.occa.home.com [24.2.8.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FE5137B66C for ; Fri, 6 Oct 2000 11:06:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cx660429a.dr.com ([24.9.136.177]) by mail.rdc2.occa.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20001006180625.MUCT24299.mail.rdc2.occa.home.com@cx660429a.dr.com>; Fri, 6 Oct 2000 11:06:25 -0700 Message-Id: <5.0.0.25.2.20001006110116.034a60f0@mail.pv1.ca.home.com> X-Sender: nkoss@mail.pv1.ca.home.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0 Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 11:10:08 -0700 To: kstewart@urx.com From: Neal Koss Subject: Re: upgrading Cc: Gary Kline , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <39DD76D4.FE1A5251@urx.com> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 11:53 PM 10/5/2000 -0700, you wrote: KS>You have a 4.1.1 version on the cdrom. You may just need to boot from KS>a floppy. Are you saying that I use the 'floppies' directory on the CDROM and do an 'fdimage' on each '.flp' file to a separate floppy disk and then just run it (starting with 'kern', right?). Will that eventually invoke something that will allow an 'upgrade' rather than fresh installation? GK>For some reason, known only to Jorden, prob'ly, sysinstall GK>is not rebuilt after you've upgraded. It must be done by-hand. What do you mean 'by hand'? Am I supposed to create the 'sysinstall' program somehow? GK>One approach may be to use Netscape and a search engine on GK>the string: "binary + upgrade + freebsd". I did the search and the best result was "http://www.defcon1.org/binary/howto2.html" which seemed to imply that my response to Kent is what to do. What I really don't understand is why this procedure isn't just stated somewhere in B&W. I find it hard to believe that I'm the first person trying to do this. Why isn't it just documented? And why does the documentation talk about a file, "sysinstall" that is so well hidden? :-) FreeBSD is such a great system other than the install/upgrade cycle. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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