Date: Mon, 05 Jul 1999 11:07:52 -0700 From: Doug <Doug@gorean.org> To: "D. Alex Neilson" <neilson@purple.nugate.com> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG, FreeBSD Mailing Lists <freebsd@purple.nugate.com> Subject: Re: Upgrade Problem from 2.2.6 to 3.2 Message-ID: <3780F478.FBE0A326@gorean.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9907042103570.16423-100000@purple.nugate.com>
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I hate to say but I have some bad news for you. "D. Alex Neilson" wrote: > > Problems upgrading from 2.2.6 to 3.2 Most people recommend that you upgrade to 2.2.8-Stable before attempting the branch jump, although it's hard to tell if that's the problem here. > 1. Started with an i386 2.2.6 system which worked fine. > > 2. Got and installed the 3.2-RELEASE source tree. Did you get it from the CD? If so there is some good news. > 3. Did a "make aout-to-elf-build" and "*-install"; all seemed to go well. This is another problem, the appropriate step to take is 'make upgrade', the other targets are remnants from older methods of upgrading. At this point it's nearly impossible to determine what kind of state your system is in. I would suggest that you either use the CD's, or the ftp method of doing an install. Ideally you would want to wipe your freebsd installation and start over (you did take backups before you started, right?), but if that's not possible, try doing the installation and specifying the same partition sizes and locations. Often times that will preserve the existing data (what's not overwritten by the installation that is). If you are going to use the ftp method of installation I recommend that you visit releng3.freebsd.org and get the latest 3.2-Stable snapshot. There are a number of small, silly things that were fixed shortly after the 3.2 release. Good luck, and I hope this helps, Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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