Date: Sun, 15 Jun 1997 09:06:20 +0300 From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il> To: "<Ajith Asela Pasqual.>" <pasqual@hal.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD upgrade from 2.2.1 CD Message-ID: <33A3865C.687A@barcode.co.il> References: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970530142208.23570A-100000@gatekeeper.barcode.co.il> <199706131033.TAA02175@hitomi.hal.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
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> Hi! Nadav, > > First of all, I'm terribly sorry for this very late reply. I was completely > immersed in an unexpected job and didn't have anytime to upgrade till this > Monday. > > Finally, I did the upgrade using 'make world' : > - removed the entire /usr/src directory > - copied the /usr/src from CD 2. > - make world > - recompiled the kernel to suit my needs > - installed compat_21 > > and nearly everything was OK. > > I did get some ld.so error messages libgnumalloc not found. It was there in > /usr/libexec/compat (from memory I'm not really sure). I copied this to > /usr/lib and all problems went away. ld.so is a bit buggy in 2.2.1. If you've taken the make world route, you could have just as well upgraded to STABLE, or at least 2.2.2. > > Also I pkg_deleted (including Window manager fvwm) several programs and > reinstalled them from 2.2 CD. > > Sofar everything is OK. xdm works fine. > > Thank you very much for all your advice and for the prompt reply. I really > appreciate it. > > BTW, I'm yet to update my /etc directory (from 2.1.7). Still it has not > given me any troubles though. Is it absolutely necessary to copy the > /usr/src/etc to /etc ? I could not understand the purpose of Makefile and what > it does in that dir. Any pointers in this direction is much appreciated as I > like to learn something new. Yeah, well, doing a make install in this directory should install all that's needed into /etc. Simply copying it won't do it because files will end up with the wrong permissions. /etc has changed quite a bit since 2.1.7, and has undergone even greater changes in the transition to 2.2.2. Procede with caution, and have a handy backup of the old files! > > Best Regards, > Ajith. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Ajith Pasqual - Hatori-Aizawa Lab., Dept of Info. & Comm. Eng., Univ. of Tokyo. > Email:pasqual@hal.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp (WWW)http://www.hal.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~pasqual/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nadav
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