From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 18 10:10:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sage-american.com (sage-american.com [216.122.141.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51E1537B401 for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 10:10:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sageone (ppp-208-191-235-136.dialup.crchtx.swbell.net [208.191.235.136]) by sage-american.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA08220; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 12:10:30 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20011018121059.01a3cce8@mail.sage-american.com> X-Sender: jacks@mail.sage-american.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 12:10:59 -0500 To: "Andrew C. Hornback" , "Annelise Anderson" From: jacks@sage-american.com Subject: RE: Where is sysinstall? Cc: "David Kirchner" , In-Reply-To: <00fb01c157f3$aa4e1d40$6600000a@columbia> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG on the FTP and Telnet services, have the line for that been decommented in the /etc/inetd.conf file...?? Won't run otherwise. At 12:40 PM 10.18.2001 -0400, Andrew C. Hornback wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Annelise Anderson [mailto:andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu] >> Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 5:27 AM >> To: Andrew C. Hornback >> Cc: David Kirchner; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >> Subject: RE: Where is sysinstall? >> >> On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Andrew C. Hornback wrote: >> >> >> > Update: I did the sysinstall Upgrade option over the >> running system, and >> > things seem to work fine, except that it killed the kernel in >> the process >> > (had to specify kernel.GENERIC at the boot loader) and that >> telnet died (I >> > assume this was part of the telnetd fix, but I haven't researched it). >> > Aside from that, things look fine (if not a bit faster than 4.3). >> > >> > --- Andy >> >> Just out of curiosity, what did you get? That is, what does uname -a >> say? > >$ uname -a >FreeBSD discovery 4.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE #0: Tue Sep 18 11:57:08 >PDT 20 >01 murray@builder.FreeBSD.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC i386 > >> I guess you used 4.3's sysinstall and told it to install from a >> 4.4 CD-ROM as an upgrade? > > That's what I did. Seems to be the easiest way to do it. > > Like I said, the two biggest things that I've seen that are different would >be that it couldn't find the kernel on boot (I had been running >kernel.GENERIC under 4.3, and evidently in the upgrade it copied the 4.3 >kernel to kernel.prev and never installed a file called kernel for 4.4. >Simple remedy on boot was to put in a named kernel file, simple remedy once >into the machine is to just copy kernel.GENERIC to kernel). > > The only other thing is that ftp and telnet seem to be shut off in 4.4. >SSH works fine, however. > >--- Andy > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > Best regards, Jack L. Stone, Server Admin Sage-American http://www.sage-american.com jacks@sage-american.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message