From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 6 15: 1:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gershwin.tera.com (gershwin.tera.com [207.224.230.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E02F537B66C for ; Fri, 6 Oct 2000 15:01:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tera.com (athena.sea.tera.com [207.224.230.169]) by gershwin.tera.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA09612; Fri, 6 Oct 2000 15:01:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: by tera.com (8.8.8+Sun/SMI-SVR4) id PAA15728; Fri, 6 Oct 2000 15:01:42 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 15:01:42 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Neal Koss Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: upgrading Message-ID: <20001006150142.A15724@athena.sea.tera.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> <39DD76D4.FE1A5251@urx.com> <5.0.0.25.2.20001006110116.034a60f0@mail.pv1.ca.home.com> <20001006191629.G252@parish> <39DE2154.F82940D7@urx.com> <5.0.0.25.2.20001006143945.034a5410@mail.pv1.ca.home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95us In-Reply-To: <5.0.0.25.2.20001006143945.034a5410@mail.pv1.ca.home.com>; from Neal Koss on Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 02:48:25PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 02:48:25PM -0700, Neal Koss wrote: > At 12:00 PM 10/6/2000 -0700, you wrote: > > > Mark Ovens wrote: > > > > On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 11:10:08AM -0700, Neal Koss wrote: > > > 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? > > > > > > > Yes. > > > > # cd /usr/src/release/sysinstall && make all install clean > > I did't think this would work until he has a real 4.1.1 and he can't > get by the buildworld right now. > > He does have the 4.1.1 CDROM and he could fdimage the floppies on it > to get a 4.1.1 sysinstall at boot. > > Kent > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > I'm sorry but I seem to be going around in circles. If I do a 'make' using > my current system (3.3), that will be incorrect for installing 4.1.1, true? > But your final comment is the one I'm trying to see. As I asked in my prior > message, if I 'fdimage' each of the '.flp' files and begin the installation > with the 'kern.flp' disk, will it at some point show me the 'sysinstall' > screens to do an upgrade? > > Why not simply explain the nuts and bolts of doing a binary upgrade? That was the original point of this matter. Anybody? gary To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message