Date: Fri, 4 Aug 100 10:46:53 -0700 (PDT) From: kline@tera.com (Gary Kline) To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: datapoint++ Message-ID: <200008041746.KAA28187@tera.com>
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Here is a heads-up, or at least an additional data-point for
your collection of BSD facts.
When you upgrade across major levels: FreeBSD-3.X to -4.X,
and likely FreeBSD.4.X to FreeBSD.5.0, be cerain to upgrade
your /stand/sysinstall. By hand,
% cd /usr/src/release/sysinstall;
% make; make install
Because if you ever need to use /stand/sysinstall on your newly
upgraded system to add a new drive, say, the old /stand/sysinstall
will not be able to correctly probe your system.
This is what happened to me a few days ago and I was stumped *why*
I seemed to have a "bad /stand/sysinstall," as I mentioned to a
friend. It was a wise word from Annelise Anderson that made me
do an ls -l /stand/sysinstall on my new 4.0 system.
I was *positive*; no, I was *ABSOLUTELY, TOTALLY, 10000% certain*
that when I finished with the buildworld/installworld contortions
that the sysinstall utility had been rebuilt and re-installed.
...Which suggests that anytime you are ABSOLUTELY certain of
anything and that you don't have to bother checking, check it
anyway.
gary
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