From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 27 13:36:29 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B129B16A41F for ; Sun, 27 Nov 2005 13:36:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bg271828@yahoo.com) Received: from web53410.mail.yahoo.com (web53410.mail.yahoo.com [206.190.37.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 71DE343D82 for ; Sun, 27 Nov 2005 13:36:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bg271828@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 60319 invoked by uid 60001); 27 Nov 2005 13:36:16 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=GqIWyf5FiRf/YW3CKdt0rXJyhff3qCovrvjIQUgfR5F85iM4fawo6lTdOR1OabM4hGy9LRC86QfpKVhcUkWg0+4vSKPL+MN53tXwO1jqoBh6xGCicbR0ugBpesDAcUzP/R8xvWpS4eDCM1F0dM4gVZ29znbOWkH/z0YruDV8H60= ; Message-ID: <20051127133616.60317.qmail@web53410.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [24.50.30.79] by web53410.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sun, 27 Nov 2005 05:36:16 PST Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 05:36:16 -0800 (PST) From: "Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20051127015804.EB33916A427@hub.freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: Instructions for upgrading? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 13:36:29 -0000 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.