From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 20 17: 5: 7 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E504337B401 for ; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 17:05:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from rhymer.cogsci.ed.ac.uk (rhymer.cogsci.ed.ac.uk [129.215.144.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9741E43F18 for ; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 17:05:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk) Received: from sorley.cogsci.ed.ac.uk (sorley [129.215.144.53]) by rhymer.cogsci.ed.ac.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA24403 for ; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 01:04:57 GMT Received: (from richard@localhost) by sorley.cogsci.ed.ac.uk (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) id BAA04144 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 01:05:08 GMT Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 01:05:08 GMT Message-Id: <200301210105.BAA04144@sorley.cogsci.ed.ac.uk> From: Richard Tobin Subject: Experiences installing 5.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Organization: just say no Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Having successfully run 5.0-DP2 on my Vaio Z600TEK laptop, I tried a binary upgrade to 5.0-R. Unsurprisingly, it didn't recognise the "Ninja ATA" pccard that connects the CDROM. So I attempted to install by NFS from a 4.7 machine. This paniced (repeatably) within a few seconds of starting to extract the base distribution. (Sorry, I didn't record the panic message.) So instead I copied the CD to a Windows partition, and installed from there. This worked until it came to install the perl package, which failed because it was already installed. It then insisted that it hadn't been able to install even the base distribution so the upgrade had failed. It now boots into 5.0-R, but of course it has not restored my /etc files; I guess I can do that by hand. I can't reproduce the panic in the running system: NFS mounting and unpacking the base distribution doesn't cause any problem. -- Richard To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message