Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 14:20:18 -0700 (MST) From: John Reynolds~ <jreynold@sedona.intel.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: cheapbytes 2.2.1 CD-Rom hosed? Message-ID: <13590.53049.226156.832046@hip186.ch.intel.com>
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Hi there, My web access is toasted for today so I wasn't able to search the mail forums, etc. for this question. Sorry if it's been asked before. I recently got the FreeBSD 2.2.5 CD-ROM from "cheapbytes". They claimed it was 100% "compatible" with the Walnut creek CD-ROM installation (minus some insignificant stuff that had to be deleted to fit on 1 disk). I went through the "upgrade" procedure after making the boot disk, etc. (I did not install from scratch but used the "upgrade" feature of the install program). Everything went OK, it did all of its work, extracted bin, man, src, etc., put me out to a shell to "merge" my etc and the saved copy of /etc and then I rebooted. Everything rebooted "ok" -EXCEPT- that during boot it says that it is booting 2.2.1 (which was what I was upgrading from--yes, I bought the 2.2.1 CD-ROM before it was conveniently "replaced" by 2.2.2). I thought "weird." Uname -a reports "2.2.1" also. I "md5"'ed /kernel and /kernel.prev (which the install copied over during the "upgrade" process) and they were identical. I thought "oh, I get it, it just didn't copy over a "generic" 2.2.5 kernel ..." ... so I go to the kernel source area (which I am pretty sure was updated--it was supposed to be) and recompiled the kernel. Rebooted and this newly compiled kernel also reports 2.2.1 ... Have their been any installation anomolies registered using the CheapBytes CD-ROMs? I'm not familiar with the kernel sources--which file would define the OS version (or is this a header file)? I am pretty sure the sources were updated, but who knows? Any suggestions as to how to proceed? -Jr -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= | John Reynolds C-TEAM CLE - Central Design Services | | Intel Corporation MS: CH6-210 Phone: 554-9092 pgr: 868-6512 | | jreynold@sedona.intel.com http://www-aec.ch.intel.com/~jreynold/ | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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