Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2006 14:09:40 -0700 From: Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> To: John Rogers <ruralriver@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: **SPAM** binary upgrade issues Message-ID: <44D26614.7010704@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <100416c30608031259o559654a7p45f573e84ec0f495@mail.gmail.com> References: <100416c30608031259o559654a7p45f573e84ec0f495@mail.gmail.com>
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John Rogers wrote: > Hi, I was upgrading following Colin's "FreeBSD 6.0 to FreeBSD 6.1 > binary upgrade" > > http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-upgrade-6.0-to-6.1/ > > but it failed. I installed freebsd 6.0 release and only used Colin's > freebsd-update to updae before. There is plenty of free space on that > partition. What do you advise me to do to finish the upgrade? Based on what you pasted below, I suggest 1. Figure out why /usr/bin/gdbtui can't be read. In particular, make sure your hard drive isn't dying. 2. The error which made the script terminate is either due to a dying hard drive or a network problem which made it impossible to fetch some files. Re-run the script; it won't bother fetching files which it already has. Note that at this point all the script has done is to examine your system and download files; it won't start actually upgrading anything until it makes sure that it has all the files it needs. :-) > I also wonder why these binary update and upgrade are not legitimized > in the freebsd core distribution. An important reason why linux is > used by more is its easy update solution similar to Microsoft's > Windows Update. Sure "make world" is fun especially to developers. > But providing easy update and upgrade tools in addition will attract a > large user base who just need a stable and easy to use operation > system - and many of them can be companies who can be potential donors > to the freebsd project. So the effort to this path will be well > rewarded. We're moving in that direction. Everything starts out by being experimental before becoming officially supported and endorsed. Colin Percival
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