Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 12:22:38 -0500 From: "Johnson, Bob" <BJohnson@gainesville.usda.ufl.edu> To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Cc: "'alanchar@meer.net'" <alanchar@meer.net> Subject: RE: FreeBSD 3.4 Upgrade crashese Message-ID: <c=US%a=_%p=USDA%l=USDANT2-000126172238Z-6085@gainesville.usda.ufl.edu>
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What method did you use to do the upgrade? It sounds like you tried to do a fresh install of 3.4-RELEASE. There is a bug in the sysinstall program for 3.4-RELEASE that causes a signal 11 for some choices. See the errata file at ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/3.4-RELEASE/ERRATA.TXT for more information about how to deal with it. Basically, you can either use different menu choices to accomplish the same thing, or you can download a fixed version of the MFSROOT floppy. To upgrade from 3.3 to 3.4, though, it seems to me that it might be better to CVSUP the latest source, then build a new system. That way you get all of the latest updates (since the 3.4 release) and you don't lose your configuration files. If you don't have hard drive space for the source, or time for a slow processor to build the system (about a day on a 486), that might not be an option for you. Chapter 17 of the FreeBSD handbook explains how to do this: http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/cutting-edge.html Good luck! -- Bob >Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 10:17:29 PST >From: Alan Char <alanchar@meer.net> >Subject: FreeBSD 3.4 Upgrade crashese > >Hi. I tried to upgrade to 3.4 (from 3.3) today, and when I >selected Custom for the distribution, it got a signal 11. >According to the debug output, the last thing it did was >unzip /stand/help/distributions.hlg.gz (returned status 0). >Is there anything I can do to fix this, or just wait until >the next release? Thanks. --Alan Char, alanchar@meer.net. Bob Johnson Local Network Administrator USDA - ARS - CMAVE Gainesville, Florida 352-374-5856 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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