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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


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