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Date:      Sat, 21 Feb 2009 22:38:52 +0530
From:      Mehul Ved <mehul.n.ved@gmail.com>
To:        Free BSD Questions list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Command line video player
Message-ID:  <c1e7523f0902210908v67f8f098jf953d41eb831e7a0@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20090221162013.X59043@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 8:52 PM, Wojciech Puchar
<wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote:
> you may just do reinstall.

I guess that's what I will ask someone to do since I won't be there
till next Saturday.

> if you fell a bit more advanced you may try the following:
>
> 1) replace kernel with generic from 7.0
> 2) reboot. it should work as there is backward compatibility.
> 3) unpack FreeBSD userland binaries from CD - by just entering every
> directory (like base, doc, etc...) and running install.sh
> 4) then upgrade manually /etc . maybe it could be done more automatic but i
> never did it that way - maybe someone else will help you.
>
> 5) install compat5x from ports unless you like to reinstall all ports.
>
> reboot

I'd like to try this... but some other time now.



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