From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Apr 3 19:21:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mostgraveconcern.com (mostgraveconcern.com [216.82.145.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38A2437B9C1 for ; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 19:21:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@mostgraveconcern.com) Received: from danco (danco.mostgraveconcern.com [10.0.0.2]) by mostgraveconcern.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id TAA22538; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 19:21:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@mostgraveconcern.com) Message-ID: <012a01bf9ddc$6c653040$0200000a@danco> Reply-To: "Dan O'Connor" From: "Dan O'Connor" To: "Brennan W Stehling" , Subject: Re: better documentation Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 19:06:03 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >I seem to have touched a nerve after I had problems with upgrading my home >box ot 4.0. The confusion was that I was relying heavily on my experience >with FreeBSD 3.x in the last year along with any documentation that I can >find on freebsd.org. I also read other sites like daemonnews.org and >related bsd sites for anything that could help me learn more. I haven't upgraded to 4.0 yet, so unfortunately I can't help with your problem... But, the reason you got snapped at is that the 'make world' 3.x -> 4.0 *problem* has been asked here about 465,294,312 times in the last two weeks. In each case, the answer has been to read the instructions in UPDATING. Anyone who has been *listening* on this list (or searched the archives) during the last two weeks knows this... I am not condoning anyone who got short with you (or with the next person who blindly does a 'make world' major update, and there *will* be a next person...), but simply as a point of advice: It really does pay to listen in here for a few days before you undertake any major upgrade--you can learn a lot! Good luck, and I hope you get your system back up soon, --Dan -- Dan O'Connor On Matters of Most Grave Concern http://www.mostgraveconcern.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message