Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 13:31:24 -0500 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: "Sandro Mancuso" <sandromancuso@hotmail.com> Cc: "'FBSD'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Stupid question: done cvsup, all the upgrade stuff... make this, make that... still says I'm on fbsd4.4 Message-ID: <0202181331240C.01558@proxy.pt.com> In-Reply-To: <002301c1b8ab$0301c2d0$6400a8c0@windows> References: <002301c1b8ab$0301c2d0$6400a8c0@windows>
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On Monday 18 February 2002 13:35, Sandro Mancuso wrote: > > Did you mount the new drive properly (i.e. have you verified that > > you are > > building the same sources that you CVSUPed)? > > [SM] I'm not quite sure what you mean. I don't see how I may have > mounted it wrong. I simply replaced the old drive with the new one, and > just ran the install from the CD. I misunderstood. I thought that you had *added* the new HDD, not used it as a replacement. When you have more than one HDD, it's not too difficult to accidentally work off the wrong one. > [SM] > weird. I know for a fact I edited > /usr/share/examples/cvsup/stable-supfile; I got rid of all the > commentary at the top of the file. However, its back. I'm assuming > it's a result of having upgraded. > I do know for sure however, that I was using "RELENG_4" <SNIP> > > You may also want to make sure you're not using a mirror site that's > > completely out of date. I don't know of any mirrors that are that > > far out > > of date, but it's a possibility. > > [SM] I sincerely believe that this is the case now. I'm going to try > again, on another server, possibly simply the main one. I was using > either cvsup.ca.freebsd.org or cvsup2.ca.freebsd.org. I've seen the .ca > mirror of the freebsd.org ftp be way behind before (which is too bad, > because its SO much faster for me than ftp.freebsd.org) It took some 2 > months or so before it saw 4.4release... back when it first appeared. Odd ... well, I'd just make sure everything is fine on your end first. Good luck. -- Bill Moran Potential Technology technical services http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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