Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 05:36:16 -0800 (PST) From: "Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum" <bg271828@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Instructions for upgrading? Message-ID: <20051127133616.60317.qmail@web53410.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20051127015804.EB33916A427@hub.freebsd.org>
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Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: >where can i find simple instructions for upgrading to a new major version? In addition to the advice given earlier, you might read Bruce Mah's "Migration Guide". The 5.3 version is here: http://people.freebsd.org/~bmah/relnotes/5.3-RELEASE/early-adopter.html and might be quite applicable to the 4.x > 5.x migration, as 5.3 was the first "-STABLE" release in the 5.X branch, and many users were expected to move to it from 4.11, etc. thanks for this! i looked att his pretty closely and thought i did everything right but did run into trouble in the end. something went wrong at "installworld", i guess with the 4.x compatability layer, and now im not sure what to do to get things fixed. when i boot into the singleuser shell, even simple commands i gett hings like "/usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libncurses.so.5" not found, required by "more"". i can use basic commands like ls and cat but not even slightly hard things like more or vi. at this point i would be willing to save my /usr directory and just try to find a cd drive to do a clean install, but im not sure how to save it. i did do a backup of my most important things but if the install is going completely wrong i guess id like to save everything. my files in /usr are all still there but i dont know if i can hook up to the network or save to an attached cd, seeing how many commands i cant run. thanks! next time i just stay with 4.10, or do a better backup! Jen --------------------------------- Yahoo! Music Unlimited - Access over 1 million songs. Try it free.
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