Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 22:41:18 +1000 (EST) From: Keith Anderson <keith@apcs.com.au> To: Jack Freelander <jack@rabbit.eng.miami.edu> Cc: Jef Moskot <jam@winona.cs.miami.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: upgrade problems Message-ID: <XFMail.990523224118.keith@apcs.com.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9905230459080.19827-100000@rabbit.eng.miami.edu>
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Hi Jef I was running 3.1 and wish to play with 4.0 so I cvsup, 'make world' and all was fine but a few bugs in the sound and dict. Liking my sound I decided to try 3.2 so I used the /stand/sysinstall upgrade option, all worked fine and I was back up in 30 min. /stand/sysinstall has a few bugs but its getting better. Keith On 23-May-99 Jack Freelander wrote: > The installation/upgrade utility for FreeBSD 3.2 seems seriously flawed. > While upgrading a machine here at UM, the installation newfs'd SEVERAL > partitions other than just the root, which was ALL it was told to do. > > Although backups exist for everything, it is completely ridiculous that the > upgrade utility would newfs anything other than what it was told. Jef > Moskot and myself were both present during the attempted upgrade and we are > both certain that ONLY "/" was told to be newfs'd. > > Furthermore, the label editor is asinine in its behaviour. When trying to > return to the previous menu to label the partitions on a second or third > disk, hitting "Q" (the only reasonable choice on the menu) returns you in > such a way that you can no longer label partitions on other fixed disks. > > Over the course of many installation procedures this evening, it repeatedly > try to fsk partitions it was never told to touch. > > Also, the entire installation/upgrade interface is considerably > counterintuitive. Selecting Q to quit or hitting escape to exit **really** > implies that you wish to totally abandon the entire procedure, instead of > simplying returning to the previous menu. It would take little effort to > make this interface more intelligible. > > I run FreeBSD at school, home, and work, and find that once it is installed, > it works very well. However, I have serious complaints about the > installation/upgrade procedure. I have never once seen it work correctly > on any system. > > Please let me know what, if anything, will be done about these bugs. > > -Jack Freelander > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message "The box said 'Requires Windows 95, NT, or better,' so I installed FreeBSD." ** The thing I like most about Windows 98 is... ** You can download FreeBSD with it! ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Keith Anderson <keith@apcs.com.au> Australia Power Control Systems Pty. Limited. Date: 23-May-99 Time: 22:34:15 Satelite Service 64K to 2Meg This message was sent by XFMail ---------------------------------- What's the similarity between an air conditioner and a computer? They both stop working when you open windows. ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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