From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jan 8 7:38:30 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4213137B401 for ; Wed, 8 Jan 2003 07:38:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns2.wananchi.com (ns2.wananchi.com [62.8.64.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1574343EE6 for ; Wed, 8 Jan 2003 07:38:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wash@wananchi.com) Received: from wash by ns2.wananchi.com (Exim 4.10.11 #2 (FreeBSD)) protocol: local id 18WIGm-00025D-00 for ; Wed, 08 Jan 2003 18:37:28 +0300 Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 18:37:28 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Moving from 4.7-STABLE to 5.0 Message-ID: <20030108153728.GD89960@ns2.wananchi.com> Mail-Followup-To: Odhiambo Washington , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <20030108105259.GA43103@ns2.wananchi.com> <20030108115631.GE82633@tepsi.mindworks.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030108115631.GE82633@tepsi.mindworks.hu> X-Disclaimer: Any views expressed in this message,where not explicitly attributed otherwise, are mine alone!. X-Fortune: Mandrell: "You know what I think?" Doctor: "Ah, ah that's a catch question. With a brain your size you don't think, right?" -- Dr. Who X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE i386 X-Best-Window-Manager: Blackbox X-Mailer: Mutt 1.5.1i (2002-05-02) X-Designation: Systems Administrator, Wananchi Online Ltd. X-Location: Nairobi, KE, East Africa. X-Uptime: 6:36PM up 2:22, 3 users, load averages: 0.57, 0.53, 0.46 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Janos Feher [20030108 16:30]: wrote: > On Jan 08 2003, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > > In a nutshell, I am requesting anyone who has gone through > > this path of updating and willing to share their notes on it > > to help me out. > > Just comment this line out, and do a make installword NOCLEAN=yes. > Before this, backup the /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin , /usr/sbin/ and /usr/lib . The installworld > will fail again, because it installed the /bin/sh , but it use the libc.so.4 . Just > put the saved sh into /bin/sh , and try to make installworld again. At the near end, it > will fail again, but don't worry. Download the DP2's bootfloppies, and try to boot with > them. After this, you should do a ln -s /usr/lib/libc.so.5 /usr/lib/libc.so.4 , because > the ports using the old /usr/lib/libc.so.4 , but they need the system calls built in libc.so.5 > ... Some of the ports won't run (like mozilla, gdb etc.), but the server applications > like xdm, mysql, slapd, apache, vim :) will. > > Not easy. > bye, Wow, this is bad ... time to stay with 4.7 on this box ufn :) I really _must_ run mozilla! Thanks. -Wash -- Odhiambo Washington "The box said 'Requires Wananchi Online Ltd. www.wananchi.com Windows 95, NT, or better,' Tel: +254 2 313985-9 +254 2 313922 so I installed FreeBSD." GSM: +254 72 743223 +254 733 744121 This sig is McQ! :-) "Don't say yes until I finish talking." -- Darryl F. Zanuck To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message