Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 18:37:28 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Moving from 4.7-STABLE to 5.0 Message-ID: <20030108153728.GD89960@ns2.wananchi.com> In-Reply-To: <20030108115631.GE82633@tepsi.mindworks.hu> References: <20030108105259.GA43103@ns2.wananchi.com> <20030108115631.GE82633@tepsi.mindworks.hu>
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* Janos Feher <aries@mindworks.hu> [20030108 16:30]: wrote: > On Jan 08 2003, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > > In a nutshell, I am requesting anyone who has gone through > > this path of updating and willing to share their notes on it > > to help me out. > > Just comment this line out, and do a make installword NOCLEAN=yes. > Before this, backup the /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin , /usr/sbin/ and /usr/lib . The installworld > will fail again, because it installed the /bin/sh , but it use the libc.so.4 . Just > put the saved sh into /bin/sh , and try to make installworld again. At the near end, it > will fail again, but don't worry. Download the DP2's bootfloppies, and try to boot with > them. After this, you should do a ln -s /usr/lib/libc.so.5 /usr/lib/libc.so.4 , because > the ports using the old /usr/lib/libc.so.4 , but they need the system calls built in libc.so.5 > ... Some of the ports won't run (like mozilla, gdb etc.), but the server applications > like xdm, mysql, slapd, apache, vim :) will. > > Not easy. > bye, Wow, this is bad ... time to stay with 4.7 on this box ufn :) I really _must_ run mozilla! Thanks. -Wash -- Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com> "The box said 'Requires Wananchi Online Ltd. www.wananchi.com Windows 95, NT, or better,' Tel: +254 2 313985-9 +254 2 313922 so I installed FreeBSD." GSM: +254 72 743223 +254 733 744121 This sig is McQ! :-) "Don't say yes until I finish talking." -- Darryl F. Zanuck To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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