From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 5 22: 7: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n37.san.rr.com (dt051n37.san.rr.com [204.210.32.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8C4337B479 for ; Sun, 5 Nov 2000 22:07:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from FreeBSD.org (Studded@master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n37.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA93547; Sun, 5 Nov 2000 22:07:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from DougB@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: <3A064A85.A902D1B0@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2000 22:07:01 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rino Mardo Cc: "FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)" Subject: Re: Help on upgrading to stable References: <2C9DB6D1616E784BB788F1CBAD33A2F3DC2E@EXCHANGE1.atg.altayer.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Rino Mardo wrote: > > I want to use FreeBSD at my home pc as my mainstay OS but I'm having > problems upgrading to STABLE. My earlier postings to this list haven't > received any replies yet so I'm again sending a request for assistance. It's likely your previous requests went unanswered simply because no one is sure how to help you. > My home pc config is: > > Gigabyte 6BXC with 128M ram, 8G hd, a Matrox G200 AGP vid card > > I have used fbsd 4.0 and 4.1 release versions and both of them would > give me the following messages: > > ata0-master: TIMEOUT: device has disappeared! That's most likely a sign of buggy hardware. Doing a make world puts a lot of strain on a system, yours may simply not be capable of it. > Either I'm doing a "make build" or "cvsup stable-supfile". I've already > swapped the hd between the primary and secondary ide controllers and > still get the message. The only thing left is to find a hard disk to > try out but hard disks are expensive in this part of the world so I was > wondering if my analysis is correct that the hard disk is at fault > before I commit and buy a new harddisk. I can sympathize with your situation. Unless you have an urgent need to stay with -stable you might simply want to stick with doing binary upgrades to the major releases. You might also try binary snapshots of -stable that are available at ftp://releng4.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/i386/ if you are looking for specific functionality that's available only in a certain snapshot. Good luck, Doug -- Life is an essay test. Long form. Spelling counts. Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message