From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 1 6:27:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from k0r3.reflektor.cz (k0r3.reflektor.cz [212.24.129.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 867E437B401 for ; Sun, 1 Jul 2001 06:27:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cynic@mail.cz) Received: (qmail 21506 invoked by uid 202); 1 Jul 2001 13:27:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO zvahlav.mail.cz) (212.24.143.100) by k0r3.reflektor.cz with SMTP; 1 Jul 2001 13:27:37 -0000 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20010701152612.00ba41b0@mail.cz> X-Sender: cynic@mail.cz X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2001 15:35:52 +0200 To: vass D , questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Cynic Subject: Re: upgrade - newbie In-Reply-To: <20010701105757.75492.qmail@web14701.mail.yahoo.com> References: <003101c10212$082390e0$231fa8c0@dekruijff.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 12:57 7/1/2001, vass D wrote the following: -------------------------------------------------------------- >Alfatrion thanx for your answer. just removed /usr/src >as u said. > >when i try to upgrade from stand/sysinstall though i >get >error message that the cd does not seem to be a valid >freebsd cd and it cant retrieve the stuff. >the cdrom is iso image mounted in /cdrom and contains >the file '4.3-install.iso'. 1) you must not mount the CD if you want to use it from /stand/sysinstall 2) if you see only 4.3-install.iso listed after # mount /cdrom && ls -l /cdrom you won't be able to use the cd (the normal way). this is what I get with a 4.3 cd, and what _you_ should get (your favorite cd burning sortware should include instructions on burning cds from ISO images): [root@freepuppy root]# mount /cdrom [root@freepuppy root]# ls -l /cdrom total 5826 -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 9707 Apr 21 06:16 ABOUT.TXT -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 980 Apr 21 06:16 ERRATA.TXT -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 34686 Apr 21 06:16 HARDWARE.TXT -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 25484 Apr 21 06:16 INSTALL.TXT -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 4722 Apr 21 06:16 LAYOUT.TXT -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 3615 Apr 21 06:16 README.TXT -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 42508 Apr 21 06:16 RELNOTES.TXT -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 17777 Apr 21 06:16 TROUBLE.TXT -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 8453 Apr 21 06:16 UPGRADE.TXT dr-xr-xr-x 4 root wheel 4096 Apr 20 23:44 XF86336 dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 18432 Apr 21 06:15 bin dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 4096 Apr 21 06:15 catpages -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 25 Apr 21 06:16 cdrom.inf dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 2048 Apr 21 06:15 compat1x dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 2048 Apr 21 06:15 compat20 dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 2048 Apr 21 06:15 compat21 dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 2048 Apr 21 06:15 compat22 dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 2048 Apr 21 06:15 compat3x dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 2048 Apr 21 06:15 compat4x dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 8192 Apr 21 06:15 crypto dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 2048 Apr 21 06:15 dict dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 8192 Apr 21 06:15 doc -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 87189 Apr 21 14:33 filename.txt dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 2048 Apr 21 06:15 floppies dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 4096 Apr 21 06:15 games dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 2048 Apr 21 06:15 info -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 5606172 Apr 21 06:15 kernel dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 4096 Apr 21 06:15 manpages dr-xr-xr-x 66 root wheel 8192 Apr 19 22:27 packages dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 2048 Apr 21 06:27 ports dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 2048 Apr 21 06:15 proflibs dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 40960 Apr 21 06:15 src dr-xr-xr-x 4 root wheel 4096 Apr 20 23:44 tools >any ideas what happens? is there any special way to >deal with iso files? > >thanx a lot and looking forward to your response. > >--- Alfatrion wrote: >> > hi. wonder if anyone can help me with the >> following. >> > i got freebsd 4.2 on my HD and want to go to 4.3. >> i >> > have a 4.3 iso image on cd. do i upgrade the >> system >> > from /stand/sysinstall? >> > >> > tried to do the above but didnt quite work. when i >> > selected to update all the sources a message >> > poped-up saying that /usr/src already exists and >> > that this is not the proper way to install sourses >> >> > and that i should be using cvsup or ctm. >> > >> > i dont wanna use cvsup or ctm cause i alredy have >> a >> > 600M iso image... >> > >> > any ideas? >> > >> > >> > thanx in advance >> > >> > __________________________________________________ >> > Do You Yahoo!? >> > Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail >> > http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ >> > >> > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body >> of the message >> > >> I havend tried this my self, but >> 1) rm -rf /usr/src >> 2) install the source from 4.3 >> 3) Used cvsup for the must recent updates. >> 4) follow up on the manual from here (make world and >> such) >> >> Alex >> > > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail >http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message ------end of quote------ cynic@mail.cz ------------- And the eyes of them both were opened and they saw that their files were world readable and writable, so they chmoded 600 their files. - Book of Installation chapt 3 sec 7 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message