From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Apr 3 17:55:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 391F937B5E1 for ; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 17:55:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) id BAA43817; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 01:49:15 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik) Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 01:49:14 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: R Joseph Wright Cc: Doug Barton , Brennan W Stehling , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make world failed Message-ID: <20000404014914.A42566@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: ; from R Joseph Wright on Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 03:55:59PM -0700 Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 03:55:59PM -0700, R Joseph Wright wrote: > Sorry to jump in in the middle of this thread, but I must agree with > Brennan that FreeBSD's online documentation is woefully incomplete. A > person upgrading from 3.x to 4.0-release shouldn't have to subscribe to a > mailing list. Indeed, and they don't. You could download 4.0 and install it over your existing 3.0 installation, or use /stand/sysinstall's "Upgrade" option. It only becomes tricky when you want to upgrade using "make world". Trying to bootstrap one system from another is a *hard* problem. You should not expect to be able to do it by reading three lines and running one command. > I'd like to see the FreeBSD handbook achieve that level of quality and > detail. At that point, I think the flames people get for not reading the > docs would make more sense. > > I'd be glad to help in this area, as I'm a very good writer. Can someone > point me in the right direction? docs@freebsd.org http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/ http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/docproj-primer/ N -- Internet connection, $19.95 a month. Computer, $799.95. Modem, $149.95. Telephone line, $24.95 a month. Software, free. USENET transmission, hundreds if not thousands of dollars. Thinking before posting, priceless. Somethings in life you can't buy. For everything else, there's MasterCard. -- Graham Reed, in the Scary Devil Monastery To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message