Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 23:22:10 +0200 From: <friedemann.becker@student.uni-tuebingen.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: sysinstall upgrade / installworld problem ... Message-ID: <200209022122.g82LMAR15622@linux17.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de>
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Hi, I tried to upgrade two systems lately (see "kernel binaries...", 2002-08-27), but I encountered a severe problem with the installation procedure. My computers have - 4.6-stable on my workstation; tried to upgrade with installworld to 5.0-current - 4.0-release on my router; sysinstall upgrade to 4.6-release /stand/sysinstall upgrade and make installworld seem to overwrite binaries in the /bin, /usr/bin, ... directories which are needed by the installation process. So both break with error messages like "foobar has wrong ELF-type. use brandelf to mark it" (I think it was something like that). This leaves my systems in an unusable state, only backups or installation from cd could help. So: what am I missing, shouldn't sysinstall only use binaries from /stand? Shouldn't it be possible to run the installation process from a set of binaries and libs from a secure location? Or did I misinterpret the messages and the problem is hidden somewhere else? Any enlightment about the installation procedures of sysinstall and installworld would be appreciated, I still don't have a clue, when sysinstall actually does recover the backup of /etc (/usr/tmp/etc) for instance, or why sysinstall upgrade over passive ftp always loses the connection at the same points (e.g. after slice 9 of the bin-package, and several others, too). So thanks in advance and happy explaining ;-) Btw, I'm on this list for ca. 2 weeks now and I like it very much here. Just wanted to tell... :) Gruß, etc, Friedemann --------------------------------------------------- freiBier, Schnaps und Delirium - the power to serve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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