Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2000 17:58:31 -0500 (CDT) From: Brennan W Stehling <brennan@offwhite.net> To: Alexander Frolkin <alexander@frolkin.demon.co.uk> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make world failed Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10004021757170.1758-100000@home.offwhite.net> In-Reply-To: <20000402221300.A1379@gamma>
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If that is now the way to upgrade it should make note of it on the site. I have used it to upgrade in the past and that is what it claims it is for. > > http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/makeworld.html Now I have a dead machine and on time to fix it. Brennan Stehling - web developer and sys admin projects: www.onmilwaukee.com | www.sncalumni.com fortune: Dawn, n.: The time when men of reason go to bed. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary" On Sun, 2 Apr 2000, Alexander Frolkin wrote: > On Sun, Apr 02, 2000 at 01:21:05PM -0500, Brennan W Stehling wrote: > > I was running FreeBSD-3.4-STABLE and wanted to get to 4.0 now that it is > > listed as stable. I have done upgrades since 3.0 and started out like I > > usually do. I followed the instructions on "make world" closely... > > > > > > ... and made sure the source was fully syncronized. I had synced it a > > couple of nights ago and give it one last update before starting yesterday > > afternoon. > > > > I checked /etc/group and needed no changes and dropped to single user > > mode. So far everything works as planned. > > > > I deleted the old /usr/obj files, started the script monitor and started > > "make world" in /usr/src/. After a couple of hours of compiling it > > started installing and finally failed. > > This isn't the way to upgrade from 3.x to 4.0. Read src/UPDATING. > > Alexander. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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