From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 16 16:58:15 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F9A3106566B for ; Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:58:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from thierry.herbelot@free.fr) Received: from smtp4-g21.free.fr (smtp4-g21.free.fr [212.27.42.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C42868FC14 for ; Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:58:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp4-g21.free.fr (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp4-g21.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE23F4C8182 for ; Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:58:09 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail.herbelot.nom (bne75-4-82-227-159-103.fbx.proxad.net [82.227.159.103]) by smtp4-g21.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF38B4C81F2 for ; Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:58:06 +0200 (CEST) Received: from tulipe.herbelot.nom (tulipe.herbelot.nom [192.168.2.5]) by mail.herbelot.nom (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id n8GGvxYm030125; Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:58:00 +0200 (CEST) From: Thierry Herbelot To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:57:53 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <20090916065625.GA627@lonesome.com> <200909161451.02432.mel.flynn+fbsd.current@mailing.thruhere.net> In-Reply-To: <200909161451.02432.mel.flynn+fbsd.current@mailing.thruhere.net> X-Warning: Windows can lose your files X-Op-Sys: Le FriBi de la mort qui tue X-Org: TfH&Co X-MailScanner: Found to be clean MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200909161857.54528.thierry.herbelot@free.fr> Cc: Mel Flynn Subject: Re: Source level upgrade from 4.9 to CURRENT.. X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:58:15 -0000 Le Wednesday 16 September 2009, Mel Flynn a écrit : > On Wednesday 16 September 2009 08:56:25 Mark Linimon wrote: > > You've gotten some good advice about the steps necessary, but not the > > advice that you'll spend a lot less time if you do a new install from > > scratch. > > Except OP mentions install from CD is broken for his system and I doubt 4.x > sysinstall will do 7.x new ftp install satisfactory. Of course, I like to > be proven wrong. Then, the OP can also put the hard disk in another machine, which can boot from a CD, install on this machine, then move the disk back to the "broken" machine (this is not Windows, where the install must happen on the same machine ...) TfH