From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Jan 24 9:28:15 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00FAE37B401 for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 09:28:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from mpls-qmqp-03.inet.qwest.net (mpls-qmqp-03.inet.qwest.net [63.231.195.114]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0E12E43F1E for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 09:28:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wolfryder@qwest.net) Received: (qmail 60535 invoked by uid 0); 24 Jan 2003 17:23:00 -0000 Received: from mpls-pop-07.inet.qwest.net (63.231.195.7) by mpls-qmqp-03.inet.qwest.net with QMQP; 24 Jan 2003 17:23:00 -0000 Received: from adsl189.omah.uswest.net (HELO wolf.qwest.net) (209.180.104.189) by mpls-pop-07.inet.qwest.net with SMTP; 24 Jan 2003 17:28:08 -0000 Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 11:32:29 -0600 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20030124111748.00ae8360@pop.omah.uswest.net> From: "WolfRyder" To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.org X-Sender: wolfryder@pop.omah.uswest.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Subject: Re: Okay, what am I doing wrong here In-Reply-To: <20030124170813.GN86853@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20030124090552.00a85270@pop.omah.uswest.net> <5.1.0.14.2.20030124090552.00a85270@pop.omah.uswest.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > Hey all...I'm a real newbie and am trying to install FreeBSD on my server. > > I've made 2 installs, which go well, then I makeworld, recompile the > kernel > > and buildworld install and run the mergmanager, just like it says to do in > > chapter 21. Follow it step by step... > > I think you got it wrong. The steps are: > > make buildworld > make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_CONFIG_FILE > make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_CONFIG_FILE > shutdown now > fsck -p > mount -u / > mount -a -t ufs > swapon -a > make installworld > mergemaster -yourswitches > reboot > > I govern a few machines none of which is very busy, and always > short-circuit the sequence to: > > make buildworld > make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_CONFIG_FILE > make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_CONFIG_FILE > make installworld > mergemaster -si > reboot Yes, that's what I did...in my frustration I shortened words...I'm sorry...only thing I did differently in the last "short-circuit" sequence is the handbook said to run mergemaster before make buildworld and I didn't do the -si after the second mergemaster. I still lost the getty tty terminal windows. pre-I updated the src and ports to sync the source, as per chapter 21.3 1.ran mergemanager as per chapter 21.4.3 Updating the files in /etc 2.shutdown now (single user mode) 3.make buildworld 4.make buildkernel KERNCONF=MY_CONFIG 5.make installkernel KERNCONF=MY_CONFIG 6.single-usermode again (shutdown now) 7.make installworld 8.mergemaster 9.reboot I've just completed my 3rd reinstall and I'm gonna go through the steps without installing any software. just bare-bones, and see if I can get it to work. Use GENERIC (again) and try not to throw my computer out the window. frustrated, Carol To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message