From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 7 19:34: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mckenzie.waystation.com (waystation.com [208.13.34.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9E6F37B5EC for ; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 19:33:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from netcmd@networkcommand.com) Received: from localhost (netcmd@localhost) by mckenzie.waystation.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id CAA02297 for ; Sat, 8 Apr 2000 02:23:29 GMT Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 02:23:29 +0000 (GMT) From: "Jon O." X-Sender: netcmd@mckenzie.waystation.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Upgrading 3.2-RELEASE to 4.0-RELEASE Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi: Those of you who know may find this funny, those who don't might end up with some clarity from this message. First, I have a good backup. I wanted to upgrade from 3.2 to 4.0 and read something about using sysinstall. I fired it up and slowly watched my commands (ls, more, etc) start failing. Then I read this: The most commonly made mistake in this regard is the use of an old copy of /stand/sysinstall from an existing installation to upgrade to a newer version of FreeBSD. This is NOT recommended. I think I did this. So, before restoring I figured I'd find out how to upgrade my sysinstall and run the upgrade. However, the release notes say don't do this, but they don't say what TO DO. I think I'm going to restore and upgrade with cvsup. Assistance with that would be helpful too. But, I think if sysinstall is an option the user should be told how to do it that way and not just the quote above. Thanks, Jon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message