Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 19:11:04 +0100 From: John <lists@shell.reiteration.net> To: Roger Williams <rogerw1962@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make installworld doesn't Message-ID: <20020408191104.A3939@shell.reiteration.net> In-Reply-To: <F172AwhFj3NAah6gz9O0000608a@hotmail.com>; from rogerw1962@hotmail.com on Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 12:45:00PM -0400 References: <F172AwhFj3NAah6gz9O0000608a@hotmail.com>
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On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 12:45:00PM -0400, Roger Williams wrote: > Hello, > I had a VERY similar issue this weekend. so I'm *not* going insane! <whew!> [snip] > ways. Well to make a long story short I ended up using a simple "make > world" and compiled the kernel afterwards manually. Is ths right or wrong, > i dont know. Why it worked...i dont know. All i know is it worked after > more than 10 failures the "freebsd suggested way" with doing nothing > different. My experience was similar. I have been using the 'suggested way' ever since fbsd4, never been a problem. I used the same way even to downgrade from -current, when Promise support for the ata driver started to appear in -stable (but not on this particular box). What was strange about this failure was that the make installworld build just hung.... no error messages no nothing. The box carried on as normal! > But dont forget to update your pw file and group file to include > the new mail user smmsp and use "mergemaster -v" at the end (this will > update your /etc dir and do MAKEDEV if needed). Many things are different > this time around. Noted. Thanks for the tip. -- John - jfm@reiteration.net - http://www.reiteration.net/~jfm For PGP public key finger jfm@reiteration.net or see webpage To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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