Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 11:40:16 +1000 From: Da Rock <freebsd-questions@herveybayaustralia.com.au> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fixit disc for 7.3 #1? Message-ID: <4F3B0D00.4050605@herveybayaustralia.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20120215000838.GA26583@thought.org> References: <20120215000838.GA26583@thought.org>
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On 02/15/12 10:08, Gary Kline wrote:
> guys,
>
> is there still a way of fixing something i did to my existing
> installation? it does nothing but continually cycle e and try to
> reboot into the old release i had from feb 2011. i thought editing
> out /etc/fstab would do it. but nope, it throws me into the lowest
> level manual config and then hangs. i cannot even install release 9.0
> which is the only other path. either some stable distro of debian,
> or getting past release8 and going to 9.
>
> first, tho, i need to get rid of this [[messed up]] 7.3.
>
> let me share a story from when i was visiting a favorite cousin who
> put up about half of NASA's huge antennas. long retired, he lives
> out where not even god could find him. he wanted to see proof of my
> beloved freebsd. so, using a new set of discs that i bought, i
> started the installation. { FWIW, --this was in july, 2000. } I
> happened to mention that freebsd had trouble configuring the
> printers. or that that could get hairy. he stopped what he was
> doing and asked me to get back to his windows toys and games. i had
> a floppy w ith the mystery file "MBR" that removed that single file.
>
> my hunch is that since i never mess with anything but freebsd, i
> left it configure itself by default and that the same thing that
> stalled me for ten minutes back in 2000, might be what's stopping
> me from installing anything over my 7.3 in 2012.
>
> any wizards how how to fix this?
Are you sure you can't backup your important files and start again? You
might have a good deal of trouble jumping by 2 major releases at the
best of times.
Also, 9.0 is significantly different in many ways to 7.x in dir
structure _and_ filesystems, to just mention a few. I new (clean)
install would be _highly_ recommended ;)
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