From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 18 5:12:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from corinth.bossig.com (mail.dohboys.com [208.26.253.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BF8737B558 for ; Tue, 18 Apr 2000 05:12:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@3-cities.com) Received: from 3-cities.com (unverified [208.26.241.126]) by corinth.bossig.com (Rockliffe SMTPRA 4.2.1) with ESMTP id ; Tue, 18 Apr 2000 05:23:11 -0700 Message-ID: <38FC511D.81A5619C@3-cities.com> Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 05:12:13 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Organization: Columbia Basin Virtual Community Project X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stefanus Du Toit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /sbin/mknod complains in make distrib-dirs distribution References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Stefanus Du Toit wrote: > > Hi, > > I just completed building 4.0-RELEASE (which I obtained via cvsup). It > built fine (I used buildworld). I am upgrading from the 3.4 cds (Jan > 2000). > > Now, once I completed compiling I went into single-user mode and did a > make DESTDIR=/var/tmp/root-18042000 distrib-dirs distribution > (yes that directory existed). > > It seemed to go pretty well until it started running MAKEDEV and I got > lots of /sbin/makedev syntax errors (/sbin/makedev was called with only > one parameter). > > Now, I realise I probably should've done a make installworld first, but I > would like to know if you could tell me whether this is the reason that > it's failing or whether it'll still be this way after a make installworld. No, you should have read /usr/src/UPDATING first. That would have you updating to 4.0-Stable first. Then, there is a definite sequence that you have to go through, which includes using the new MAKEDEV to build your devices. Read and see if you can recover. Good luck, Kent > > The reason I'm not just going ahead and trying is that I'm a little > stressed on time at the moment and can't really afford using up too much > time hacking around to get failing upgrades working :/. > > (I'm unfortunately not subscribed to the mailing lists at the point > because I can't handle the traffic [I tried, really! :) ] so please reply > to both the list/s and me, thanks!] > > PS: I love being able to update using cvsup - I come from Linux, where > updating is usually a matter of a big ftp download or buying a cd :/ > > Thanks, > > -- > Stefanus Du Toit * WorldForger * Unix Hacker * Open Source Fanatic > mailto:sdt@gmx.net * http://www.worldforge.org/ * http://ultracool.net/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message