Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 10:42:20 -0400 From: "Lee Parsons" <parsonsl@upstate.edu> To: <freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org> Subject: Thinkpad R32 5.3 -> 5.4 migration woes Message-ID: <s32fe792.033@upstate.edu>
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I have previously ran 5.2 and 5.3 on my thinkpad R32. After having had some recent hardware difficulties on my system, I thought I would wipe my freebsd partition and reinstall with 5.4. I have repartioned my slice, which should have formatted the partitions that I made (/, /usr, /var, and a swap). I then proceeded to install from CD. I have made three attempts to install 5.4, and have not yet succeeded in getting X to set up in any way. For that matter, even installing simple programs like vim has been unsuccessful. If I use sysinstall, I will get errors about the dependencies already being installed. For example, if something needs Perl 5.8.6, I will get an error that 5.8.5 is already installed. In this case, I then used "make deinstall", followed my "make reinstall" for perl to resolve this. Large packages like KDE3 will generate about a half-dozen or more dependency version errors and then give up. I have reformatted every time that I have tried installing 5.4. Are there programs on the 5.4 CDs (such as perl) that are present in multiple, similar versions? More importantly, is there a way to get sysinstall to use "pkg_add -f" in its installation so that the packages will upgrade rather than barf out errors to me and give up? thanks Lee
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