Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 19:39:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> To: Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net> Cc: John-David Childs <jdc@nterprise.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Best way to upgrade to 2.2.5-BETA? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971008192733.23679B-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> In-Reply-To: <19971008235543.18435@pavilion.net>
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On Wed, 8 Oct 1997, Josef Karthauser wrote: [re: upgrades with cvsup] > > I updated a 2.1.5 machine to RELENG_2_2 last week doing this. Easy. > (Only problem? It was a 486 machine with 8mb of memory so it was _real_ > slow :) > > Joe I have a machine that originally had 2.1 installed on it (via ftp) and has been upgraded only through sup/cvsup and "make world." It's still got some stuff dated Nov 16, 1995. One thing "make world" doesn't do is update /stand/sysinstall; nor does it update /etc. I've updated that by hand, of course, but didn't realize I had to move some files there to other locations--e.g., MAKEDEV in /etc/etc.i386 should be moved to /dev/MAKEDEV. As a consequence I couldn't make moused work. Unlike an upgrade using a cd (or ftp as an install medium), a make world doesn't update the X Window stuff, so I also had a pretty old version of that around, and just upgraded it by making the port, which, thank goodness, worked fine. My guess is that there are a few other things lurking.... Annelise
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