Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 14:39:00 -0600 From: Martin Jackson <mhjacks@swbell.net> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: 6.1-BETA4 installation report Message-ID: <441DC164.5060703@swbell.net>
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Greetings, First of all, thanks for all the hard work that's gone into the 6.1 release process so far. Today, I tried doing a binary upgrade of 6.1-PRERELEASE (cvsup'ed about a week ago) to 6.1-BETA4. It's really old hardware, a PII 333Mhz. I don't know if what I tried to do is even supported, so I haven't filed any PR's yet. I ran into two issues: 1) The upgrade errored out almost immediately on /var/empty, since it had been chflags'ed to nschg. I went to the shell and chflags'ed that off, and upgrade continued. 2) The 'kernels' distribution wasn't installed at all, which led loader to complain upon reboot. I had an old kernel installed, so I booted from that and used sysinstall to install GENERIC. I also had to change loader.conf to reference 'kernel="GENERIC"'. Is this the preferred way to do it, or should I move 'GENERIC' to 'kernel'? thanks, Marty
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