From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 22 15:33:15 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id PAA02538 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 22 Jun 1995 15:33:15 -0700 Received: from birch.ee.vt.edu (birch.ee.vt.edu [128.173.88.34]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id PAA02528 for ; Thu, 22 Jun 1995 15:33:13 -0700 Received: from fox.ee.vt.edu by birch.ee.vt.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA10759; Thu, 22 Jun 95 18:33:11 EDT From: yzalkow@birch.ee.vt.edu (Yuval Zalkow) Received: by fox.ee.vt.edu (1.38.193.4) id AA00728; Thu, 22 Jun 1995 18:33:10 -0400 Message-Id: <9506222233.AA00728@fox.ee.vt.edu> Subject: Best way to update from 2.0R to 2.0.5R To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 22 Jun 95 18:33:09 EDT Mailer: Elm [revision: 70.85] Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Hello, Can someone tell me the best way to upgrade my system from 2.0R to 2.0.5R? I have a pretty standard 2.0R install. All of my user and locally made programs are in seperate directories. I want NOT to reformat both hard drives and start from scratch installing. I tried to download the entire source tree 2.0.5R and compile it to install the new version, but that didn't work -- I ran into many compile problems with things like constants and headers not found. So far, I haven't been having much success. Any good insights into this problem would be helpful. I don't have a fast connection to the net, only a 14.4Kbps modem SLIP connection through school. I have a bunch of other machines on a local network, which can do NFS, but its a painfully slow NFS -- through OS/2. Last time I tried it under Linux served NFS, it didn't too well either. I haven't had much luck with the install program in 2.0. So basically, what is the best route to take in order to upgrade the system from 2.0R to 2.0.5R? Secondly, after I get the system up to 2.0.5R, will I have to recompile all my utilties I made under 2.0R? I guess lastly, I have problems with using the lnc driver for networks. I have to network cards, one is a very generic NE2000 clone which runs under the ed driver just fine. The problem is I cannot get the lnc driver to work with the ed driver, I will soon need both to work. I get a "heartbeat failure" error from my Boca Network card which uses the Lance chipset. I'm pretty sure that its not a configuration problem, and I would be willing to go into more depth, but I don't think everybody needs to hear about it. If I could be pointed in the right direction, that would be great. thanks, -- Chris Inacio ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- cinacio@vt.edu | Computer Engineering | Nifty quote here! yzalkow@birch.ee.vt.edu | Virginia Tech | inacio@x-logic.async.vt.edu | |