Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2000 18:13:54 -0500 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@columbus.rr.com> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Questions after doing a cvsup Message-ID: <3A0B2FB2.2E8E7A26@columbus.rr.com> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1001109174015.7296B-100000@marlo.eagle.ca>
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Gerry Freymann wrote: <SNIP> > Is there anything that talks about "mergemaster?" I have to admit I didn't > really know wtf was going on there. man mergemaster > I eventually decided just to rename /etc to /etc.new and my /etc.old back > to /etc and reboot. Voila! My machine knows who it is, all the network > stuff loads and the other boot up stuff in /usr/local/etc/rc.d loads. Config changes between .X releases are usually very minor, or even nonexistant. > Now when I go into /stand/sysinstall, do post config, and opt to install > premade freebsd packages, when I select an FTP server, it says it doesn't > have the files for 4.2-Beta! even ftp.freebsd.org! ug! In sysinstall, go under "options" and change "release" to 4.1. Package collections may not exist for 4.2 yet, but 4.1 packages will most likely work just fine. Hope this helps, Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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