From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 21 06:27:08 2004 Return-Path: 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 16C1B16A4CE for ; Tue, 21 Dec 2004 06:27:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sampson.aptedtech.com (sampson.aptedtech.com [209.124.140.29]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 877E243D2F for ; Tue, 21 Dec 2004 06:27:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dhull@digitaloverload.net) Received: (qmail 15494 invoked by uid 66); 21 Dec 2004 07:43:22 -0000 Received: from dhull@digitaloverload.net by sampson.aptedtech.com by uid 60 with qmail-scanner-1.15 (sophie: 2.10/3.63. Clear:. Processed in 0.079845 secs); 21 Dec 2004 07:43:22 -0000 Received: from 209-124-142-204.olive.dsl.arctic.net (HELO tower1.digitaloverload.local) (209.124.142.204) by sampson.customcpu.com with SMTP; 21 Dec 2004 07:43:22 -0000 From: Damien Hull To: freebsd-questions Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 21:27:04 -0900 Message-Id: <1103610424.12338.28.camel@tower1.digitaloverload.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: upgrading 4.10 to 5.3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 06:27:08 -0000 I'm trying to upgrade my 4.10 workstation to 5.3 but I'm not having any luck. In my search to find an answer I found some info saying that one shouldn't upgrade branches. That brings me to my first question. Should I upgrade from 4.10 to 5.3 or should I just setup a new 5.3 workstation? Here's where I am having trouble. 1. when trying to install the kernel I get this message telling me there is no /boot/device.hints file. After doing some research I found that there is a GENERIC.hints file in /usr/src/something/i386/conf/ (don't remember the exact location). I placed that file in /boot/ and installed the kernel. The kernel installs but I don't know if the GENERIC.hints file will work when I reboot. All I can say is that the kernel installed. That's when I moved on to mergemaster. 2. I had some trouble with mergemaster. Don't know what I did wrong here so I can't say much about it. I don't think I've ever had much luck with mergemaster. I'm going to give the upgrade another shot so maybe it will work this next time. 3. Somehow I was able to finish the mergemaster step and move on to installing my world. I did "make installworld" and a bunch of things went by on the screen and then I got errors and "stop". I think it said something about a core dump. All I got out of it was that my upgrade didn't work. I used g4u to backup my 4.10 workstation before I did the upgrade. I'm doing my second restore as I write this. As soon as it finishes I'll cvsup and start all over. If anyone can tell me what I'm doing wrong let me know. Also, if you think I should just dump 4.10 and do a new install of 5.3 I can do that as well. I've got another drive I can install 5.3 on. I'm hoping I can upgrade so I don't have to configure a new 5.3 system. -- Damien Hull