From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 2 14:22:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EE1C37B400 for ; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 14:22:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx01.uni-tuebingen.de (mx01.uni-tuebingen.de [134.2.3.11]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F7E843E4A for ; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 14:22:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from friedemann.becker@student.uni-tuebingen.de) Received: from linux17.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de (linux17.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de [134.2.18.17]) by mx01.uni-tuebingen.de (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g82LMBBZ009145 for ; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 23:22:11 +0200 Received: (from zxmxy33@localhost) by linux17.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de (8.10.2/8.8.8) id g82LMAR15622 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 23:22:10 +0200 Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 23:22:10 +0200 From: Message-Id: <200209022122.g82LMAR15622@linux17.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: sysinstall upgrade / installworld problem ... Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I tried to upgrade two systems lately (see "kernel binaries...", 2002-08-27), but I encountered a severe problem with the installation procedure. My computers have - 4.6-stable on my workstation; tried to upgrade with installworld to 5.0-current - 4.0-release on my router; sysinstall upgrade to 4.6-release /stand/sysinstall upgrade and make installworld seem to overwrite binaries in the /bin, /usr/bin, ... directories which are needed by the installation process. So both break with error messages like "foobar has wrong ELF-type. use brandelf to mark it" (I think it was something like that). This leaves my systems in an unusable state, only backups or installation from cd could help. So: what am I missing, shouldn't sysinstall only use binaries from /stand? Shouldn't it be possible to run the installation process from a set of binaries and libs from a secure location? Or did I misinterpret the messages and the problem is hidden somewhere else? Any enlightment about the installation procedures of sysinstall and installworld would be appreciated, I still don't have a clue, when sysinstall actually does recover the backup of /etc (/usr/tmp/etc) for instance, or why sysinstall upgrade over passive ftp always loses the connection at the same points (e.g. after slice 9 of the bin-package, and several others, too). So thanks in advance and happy explaining ;-) Btw, I'm on this list for ca. 2 weeks now and I like it very much here. Just wanted to tell... :) Gruß, etc, Friedemann --------------------------------------------------- freiBier, Schnaps und Delirium - the power to serve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message