From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 10 13:07:34 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA11286 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 10 Aug 1997 13:07:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pos-srv4100.javanet.com (pos-srv4100.javanet.com [208.134.56.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA11275 for ; Sun, 10 Aug 1997 13:07:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from carson (spg-as4s43.erols.com [207.172.111.234]) by pos-srv4100.javanet.com (8.8.6/8.7) with SMTP id QAA07123; Sun, 10 Aug 1997 16:07:18 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <33EE1F9A.3443539A@javanet.com> Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 16:07:54 -0400 From: John Szumowski X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; Linux 2.0.18 i586) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Wolfgang Helbig CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrade buggy sysinstall? References: <199708101927.VAA27808@helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Wolfgang Helbig wrote: > [snip] > The ERRATA.TXT in the 2.2.2-RELEASE directory on the FreeBSD > mirrors says it all: [snip] > o sysconfig scrambles rc.conf if run again. > > Fix: Get updated /usr/src from RELENG_2_2 branch and build > /usr/src/release/sysinstall, copying the new binary to /stand. > > If you do not have enough space for src then you could also > use the boot/fixit floppy combo from a later 2.2-YYMMDD-RELENG > release to simply mount your root partition (using the Fixit > option) and copy /stand/sysinstall from the floppy to /stand on > your root fs. [snip] > > Wolfgang Yeah, I read that. The point was I didn't want to get all of the updates to the source tree if I could avoid doing so. All I'm looking for is the couple of c files or whatever needed to build myself a copy of the newer sysinstall. (FTP directory?) I did try the floppy- but when I mounted it under freebsd, there wasn't any "stand" directory... Thanks.