Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 10:43:29 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@ucb.crimea.ua> To: Ben Jackson <ben@ben.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: upgrade issue from 2.2.x -> 3.2 Message-ID: <19990910104328.C59335@relay.ucb.crimea.ua> In-Reply-To: <199909100500.WAA00530@pulsar.ben.com>; from Ben Jackson on Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 10:00:46PM -0700 References: <199909100500.WAA00530@pulsar.ben.com>
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On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 10:00:46PM -0700, Ben Jackson wrote: > I just did that upgrade (been with freebsd since 1.1!) and everything > seems pretty smooth. I did a 2.2->3.1 upgrade on another machine so > I'm probably glossing over some aout issues (mainly that you have to > find them and move them into a separate directory). > > One thing that confused me for several days and I just figured out: > sysctl moved from /usr/sbin to /sbin. I have /usr/sbin in my path first, > so I was getting to old one. It almost works, but not quite. It only > displays about 15 `kern.' variables and then quits. > > Perhaps the upgrade option should at least warn of that possibility > (maybe obvious, but somewhat unexpected) or even include a list of files > that once existed in FreeBSD but no longer do (to facilitate removing > them). I'm thinking about digging out a 2.2.x install cd to build that > list for myself. > Just `make installworld DESTDIR=/fresh-install' and check it against your /. Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA of the ru@ucb.crimea.ua United Commercial Bank, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.247.647 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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