Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 19:51:20 -0400 From: Jim Campbell <jim-c@charter.net> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Newbie Question About System Update Message-ID: <426447F8.5090209@charter.net>
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I've been away from *NIX a few years. I have been playing with FreeBSD for a week or so now with mixed results. I am using release 4.11 because for some reason 5.3 has problems seeing my hard drives. 4.11, Red Hat Linux and NetBSD have no such trouble. This afternoon I used the "Updating Sources with CVSup" in the FreeBSD Cheat Sheets and everything worked as advertized. I believe that it advised against using "make world" and suggested that I use "19.4.1 The Canonical Way to Update Your System" in the Handbook. I went through the following steps with no problem: # make buildworld # make installworld # mergemaster # reboot After that, I ran into problems. It took me a little while to figure out how to do "boot -s". However, it appears that a lot of the directories aren't mounted and the next scripts aren't in the path. For example, I can't figure out how to do the "mergemaster -p". Any help would be much appreciated. Jim Campbell
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