From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 19 12:40:49 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA20661 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 19 Mar 1997 12:40:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from emu.state51.co.uk (emu.state51.co.uk [194.159.145.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA20645 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 1997 12:40:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from [194.159.145.12] [194.159.145.12] by emu.state51.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.58 #1) id 0w7SA0-0000Aq-00; Wed, 19 Mar 1997 20:40:36 +0000 X-Sender: philip@mailgate.state51.co.uk Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 20:39:57 +0000 To: questions From: Philip Crewdson Subject: 2.2R upgrade experiences Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Not a question - just a few observations that might be of use to intending upgraders/installers: While sysinstall does a wonderful job when everything is set up right, there always seem to be some unpredictable bumps along the way. These were mine: 1) the boot floppy collapsed into error messages before finishing its probing. Stress - test - try all the flags - no joy. Solution: corrupt floppy *@#$! Got it again - worked perfectly. 2) I was installing via ftp from another machine on the local network, logging on as a registered user. Normally that would take me into my home directory. The sysinstall instructions tell you to enter the path to the distribution relative to your home directory or the ftp directory. No good. Eventually I found that it was ftp-ing straight into the root directory and searching from there. No idea why. 3) the installation quickly filled up the root slice and died. It was quick because I was installing over local ethernet - if I had been ftp-ing to a remote site, it would have _slowly_ filled up the root slice and died. Turned out that it wanted to put 40Mb of stuff into /mnt. Too much for me - my root slice is only 30Mb total! So I had to move /mnt to /usr and link it back and start again. Now I have 40Mb of stuff in /usr/mnt. If anyone can reassure me that it's safe to delete it, I'd be grateful :) That's it. Now I'm a happy bunny. Good luck to all. Philip ============= Philip Crewdson philip@state51.co.uk a member of the state51 conspiracy http://www.state51.co.uk/ raft crew http://www.vmg.co.uk/