Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 15:30:02 -0800 (PST) From: "Wayne M. Barnes" <wayne@barnes1.wustl.edu> To: freebsd-bugs Subject: conf/3123 reply2 Message-ID: <199703272330.PAA02680@freefall.freebsd.org>
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From: "Wayne M. Barnes" <wayne@barnes1.wustl.edu>
To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: conf/3123 reply2
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 17:22:51 -0600 (CST)
Dear Jordan,
Re: My goal is to update to release 2.2
Actually, I can't boot my Dell Pentium with a floppy, as I have
complained months ago -- I just get a loop of something like H:0 C:0 S:0 or
something that looks like hard drive sector pointer errors.
It might be an incompatibility with my CD (ATAPI), but I'm not sure. Disabling
the ATAPI in a kernel does not help.
Actually, I can't install from the CD, either. What works for me, and
I may try it, is to boot from the CD from DOS,
and install over the network with FTP.
It is tricky to avoid the partition part of the install, however. Is
this what the 'upgrade' menu item is for?
Therefore I would just like to update from my installed system.
I am willing to run in single-user mode for this.
Thank you for this undoubtably good suggestion.
Can you just modify /stand/sysinstall to only perform an upgrade in
single-user mode? I'm afraid I would still get the other problems
I reported ( about saving /etc and mounting nfs).
All I want is updated source and binaries, right? Why shouldn't I just be
able to dump them into my directories with one command or two
(and have the Makefile.386 or whatever be updated, too) and then make
a new MYKERNEL? Would I only have to mount / for the system binaries,
and *not* /usr ?
Wayne M. Barnes, Ph.D. wayne@barnes1.wustl.edu
Biochemistry Dept. 8231 or barnes@biodec.wustl.edu
Washington Univ. Medical School 314.362.3351 fax 7183
660 South Euclid Ave., St. Louis, MO 63110
http://mbb.wustl.edu/~barnes/
> > I tried both the menu system and I tried the following command to start it:
> >
> > /stand/sysinstall nfs=wuarchive.wustl.edu:/archive/systems/unix/FreeBSD\
> > releaseName=2.2.1-RELEASE distSetDeveloper installUpgrade mediaSetNFS
>
> Yikes!
>
> I never thought anyone would actually try to run it from multi-user
> mode like this. :-)
>
> It really expects to be run off the boot floppy, where it can
> carefully mount portions of the system and know that they're not
> *active* during the update/upgrade process. I should probably disable
> upgrade entirely in multiuser mode - whoops.
>
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