From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Apr 2 18:14: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from home.offwhite.net (home.offwhite.net [156.46.35.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1705637B556 for ; Sun, 2 Apr 2000 18:13:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brennan@offwhite.net) Received: from localhost (brennan@localhost) by home.offwhite.net (8.9.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA03625; Sun, 2 Apr 2000 20:13:38 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2000 20:13:37 -0500 (CDT) From: Brennan W Stehling To: Warner Losh Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make world failed In-Reply-To: <200004030059.SAA56336@harmony.village.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG gosh, thanks for the helpful comments. actually, i did research this as much as i could. i have done this many times in the past, but not over the major boundary. and when i was looking over that make world page it did not offer any warning about not working for the 4.0 upgrade. and since i have done it before and was able to make it work with little effort i figured it would work as it always have. i saw no indication anywhere that there would be a problem. if i cannot trust the official freebsd website to provide me with proper instructions, why would i choose to continue using this operating system? i do not know who you are, but perhaps you should consider your comments before sending them off next time. i have been using FreeBSD for over 2 years now and have been mostly happy with it. lately i have noticed more and more sites are offering helpful information on the bsd's and am glad for it, but no matter how much reading i may do, it is still hard to be a master of the system. it's not like i can buy a detailed book on freebsd or find a detailed web page on the official freebsd website which assists me in moving from 3.x to 4.0. perhaps someone on this list can volunteer to submit a helpful article to one of the bsd sites to assist people like myself who want to learn but need a little help in administering this fine operating system. Brennan Stehling - web developer and sys admin projects: www.onmilwaukee.com | www.sncalumni.com fortune: Ever notice that even the busiest people are never too busy to tell you just how busy they are. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message