From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 19 10:10:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from zcars04f.ca.nortel.com (zcars04f.nortelnetworks.com [47.129.242.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BE4337B401 for ; Mon, 19 Feb 2001 10:10:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from zcard015.ca.nortel.com by zcars04f.ca.nortel.com; Mon, 19 Feb 2001 13:07:51 -0500 Received: by zcard015.ca.nortel.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Mon, 19 Feb 2001 13:07:51 -0500 Message-ID: From: "Matthew Koivisto" To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: RE: a little problem with upgrading 4.1 to 4.2 Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 13:07:40 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C09A9E.D8F6FF30" X-Orig: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C09A9E.D8F6FF30 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" When I upgraded my 4.1 to 4.2 I kept it in multiple user mode the whole time, and it went great. Try it not in single user mode. Matt -----Original Message----- From: Greg Nelsen [mailto:excalibr@avalon.net] Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 1:15 PM To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: a little problem with upgrading 4.1 to 4.2 Last night I cvsuped the 4-stable tree and then followed the instructions in src/UPGRADING the cvsup went fine (i think) and building the world went fine (i think). I say "I think" because these things take so long that I don't watch them closely. Buildkernel went fine, and installkernel went fine too. I dropped to single user... but the installworld command barfed an error: It could not find GNU/?iforget?/libg2a or something like that (I'm pretty sure of the lib and the g2a). I'm sort of a newbie with this, so is this system now too inconsistent to run if it restarts, and is there any thing I can try? Yes I've got backup and fixit disks --Oh, i used -DNOGAMES and -DNOFORTRAN too to buildworld and installworld. Greg excalibr@avalon.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message ------_=_NextPart_001_01C09A9E.D8F6FF30 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable RE: a little problem with upgrading 4.1 to 4.2

When I upgraded my 4.1 to 4.2 I kept it in multiple = user mode the whole time, and it went great. Try it not in single user = mode.

Matt

 -----Original Message-----
From:   Greg Nelsen [mailto:excalibr@avalon.net] =
Sent:   Monday, February 19, 2001 1:15 = PM
To:     = questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:        a = little problem with upgrading 4.1 to 4.2

Last night  I cvsuped the 4-stable tree and then = followed the
instructions in src/UPGRADING
the cvsup went fine (i think) and building the world = went fine (i
think). I say "I think" because these = things take so long that I don't
watch them closely. Buildkernel went fine, and = installkernel went fine
too. I dropped to single user... but the = installworld command barfed an
error: It could not find GNU/?iforget?/libg2a  = or something like that
(I'm pretty sure of the lib and the g2a).

I'm sort of a newbie with this, so is this system now = too inconsistent
to run if it restarts, and is there any thing I can = try?  Yes I've got
backup and fixit disks --Oh, i used -DNOGAMES and = -DNOFORTRAN too to
buildworld and installworld.

Greg
excalibr@avalon.net


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