From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jun 27 0:39:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.sunesi.net (ns1.sunesi.net [196.15.192.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79F2F37BE67 for ; Tue, 27 Jun 2000 00:39:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nbm@sunesi.net) Received: from nbm by ns1.sunesi.net with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 136pxQ-00076J-00; Tue, 27 Jun 2000 09:38:56 +0200 Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 09:38:56 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Francisco Reyes Cc: FreeBSd Chat list Subject: Re: Why can't upgrades be simpler? Message-ID: <20000627093855.A27101@mithrandr.moria.org> References: <200006270352.XAA29208@sanson.reyes.somos.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <200006270352.XAA29208@sanson.reyes.somos.net>; from fran@reyes.somos.net on Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 11:49:56PM -0400 Organization: Sunesi Clinical Systems X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon 2000-06-26 (23:49), Francisco Reyes wrote: > Of 3 boxes I chose to bite the bullet on two and save my data > and install 4 from scratch. For the only box that I decided to > try and upgrade it has been very treacherous. Sure many people > have done it successfully, but for those of us that have failed > after having followed carefully /usr/src/UPDATING this is very > discouraging. It might help to know how it failed. make buildworld make buildkernel make installkernel (reboot single) make installworld NOINFO=1 make installworld worked in almost every case. (and if Ruslan has/d MFC'd to 3.5 the install-info changes, the NOINFO=1 installworld wouldn't be necessary) Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner Sunesi Clinical Systems nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message