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Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 17:57:54 +0200
From: Hayden Katzenellenbogen <hayden@tudogs.com>
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Subject: Upgrade/Make World
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To start off I know this mail is going to irritate someone but I need to
know.

I have been looking through the FreeBSD site and through about 2-3
hundred artiles on the site about make world. and upgrading.

I would like to know where I can find the definitve information on how
to do a proper make world and/or and upgrade.

Most of the info I have found says download the source via cvsup and
then type make world and wait. I have done this 5 times on different
machines with different version of freeBSD all of them have stuffed up
not one did and upgrade.

I have tried the buildworld installworld option that made an even better
mess as it built everything and stuffed up installing.

I have found different processes and instructions for doing the upgrade.

like:

make buildworld
(build all devices) no docs telling how
(build a new kernel)
(install new kernel)
reboot
make -DNOINFO installworld
make installworld

I have no idea how to do step 2.

I would love to know how to upgrade my system it can be as complicated
or as simple as you can make it. 

The reason I want to upgrade is that I ran cvsup about 2 weeks ago to
find that when I try to install a port it then tells me my system is too
old either make world or download an upgrade.

I downloaded the upgrade eventually got it working but now I find that I
am having tons of trouble installing ports every port is a pain to
install.

Please help me anyway you can and please do not send the mail saying
read the FAQ.

Thanks

Hayden


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