Date: 19 Jul 1996 12:20:25 GMT From: hgoldste@mpcs.com (Howard Goldstein) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: recovering from failed update 2.1-stable->2.1.5R Message-ID: <slrn4uuvc9.ejh.hgoldste@bbs.mpcs.com> References: <Pine.SCO.3.91.960716071940.6484H-100000@buffnet3.buffnet.net> <Pine.LNX.3.91.960716161136.10903D-100000@gallup.cia-g.com>
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Thanks to a flaky dialup slip line when I woke up this morning instead of finding 70mb of a 'developer' install waiting for me i found the install screen stuck halfway through the 'extract bin into /' progress indicator. The floppy boot kernel was still responsive; I waited 15 minutes after restoring the slip line but gave up after it looked like it wouldn't try to resume the FTP from ftp6 for the balance of the install. Easy questions in two categories: 1. Should I have waited longer? The slip link was down for a good 4 hours. Would it have recovered and resumed from where it left off if I had? [could i have forced a resume before rebooting?] 2. I'm now just grabbing the minimal installation to get at least something back on the air. ONce I get it going (note optimism that it will get going!) what is the best way to upgrade the balance of the install to 2.1.5R, being the source docs and devel tools? Can I use sup on the remaining distributions or if I have to do the sysinstall thing again, can I run it from the live, booted system or do I have to boot from the floppy ? Please copy any reply to me at the reply-to address. I know, I detest folks who do this but of course our entire newsfeed from a large northwestern university went down last night as if knowing I would be asking for some guidance (I read freebsd-questions as a munich newsgroup). Thanks in advance h Florida's Space Coast FreeBSD evangelist -- Howard Goldstein <hg@n2wx.ampr.org>
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