Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 14:42:08 -0800 (PST) From: kline@tera.com (Gary Kline) To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: upgrading .... Message-ID: <9602172241.AA21681@tera.com>
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Well, I just had a brush with death or depression or panic. Or whatever. ---I've chilled considerably in recent years... but not entirely. Around 19:30 Friday night, I pulled the required XFree86, v3.12 tars off freefall. Carefully installed them; linked XF86_W32 to X. Tried to bring up X, and disaster. The server did come up, but was nothing but 3 or 4 bands of fuzzy, horizontal lines. Before turning in, I managed to boot in single mode, remove xdm from rc.local, and fsck everything. From this morning until about an hour ago I tried to get v3.12 up. No joy. There was a complaint about libc being the wrong version (I'm running FreeBSD 2.0.5). And some complaints about tar not being able to overwrite some symbolic links. The last think I tried was modifying my /etc/XF86Config to use the exact values for my ViewSonic-7 as are given in the ...doc/Monitors file. Zip. I just retrieved the old X311*.tgz from my CDROM and reinstalled. X is back. Anyone know what I'm doing so wrong? Is there a way to upgrade to v2.1 in any staged way via ftp? I'd rather not go with ``-current''. Thanks much. gary kline
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