Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 22:33:36 -0700 (PDT) From: "f.johan.beisser" <jan@caustic.org> To: "R. Lahaye" <lahaye@users.sourceforge.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: HELP: messed up my 4.3 system; can't recompile kernel etc. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0107132227020.5567-100000@pogo.caustic.org> In-Reply-To: <3B4FCE20.35B58FCE@users.sourceforge.net>
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On Sat, 14 Jul 2001, R. Lahaye wrote: > First of all: I'm a very newbie in FreeBSD world. that's fine, welcome aboard. > All my problems started off with me wanting to update a few > ports. I played with cvsup, which all of a sudden started to > update into my /usr/src and /usr/src/contrib etc. okay ... > This was causing trouble when I tried to recompile my kernel. > > Apparently I have updated the system in /usr. ok, could you provide better detail on what exactly happened? if you simply updated the source code (/usr/src/), then you should probably finish the update, then try to recompile the kernel. i think most folks would recommend updating the kernel after you've done a buildworld. (not, i should point out, a make world, which will install all the new binaries > Since I'm not yet in a stage of trying bleeding-edge FreeBSD > releases, I would very much want to reverse that cvsup update. you'd have to change the flags for the cvsup. you could, of course, just follow -STABLE. > I have the 4.3 CDROM installation. you can reinstall the source code from this. > Can someone tell me the best way how to get back to me original > 4.3 system? if the system is running fine, then you can just install the source code through /stand/sysinstall (assuming you have the disk in your drive). i personally would update the source to the latest versions with cvsup. # cvsup -g -L 2 -h cvsup4.freebsd.org \ /usr/share/examples/cvsup/stable-supfile and let it run. do it as root. after it's done, recompile the kernel, and do a buildworld. there's a recent security problem on freebsd, you may have gotten the announcement. it'd be in your best interests to update anyway. hope this helps you a little, -- jan -------/ f. johan beisser /--------------------------------------+ http://caustic.org/~jan jan@caustic.org "which then led me to realize leading my life by the motto 'i'm not as bad as jan' would still let me get away with A LOT" --- j. leah williams, University of Chicago, 19 Jan, 2001 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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