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Date:      Tue, 27 Jun 2000 09:38:56 +0200
From:      Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>
To:        Francisco Reyes <fran@reyes.somos.net>
Cc:        FreeBSd Chat list <chat@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Why can't upgrades be simpler?
Message-ID:  <20000627093855.A27101@mithrandr.moria.org>
In-Reply-To: <200006270352.XAA29208@sanson.reyes.somos.net>; from fran@reyes.somos.net on Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 11:49:56PM -0400
References:  <200006270352.XAA29208@sanson.reyes.somos.net>

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On Mon 2000-06-26 (23:49), Francisco Reyes wrote:
> Of 3 boxes I chose to bite the bullet on two and save my data
> and install 4 from scratch. For the only box that I decided to
> try and upgrade it has been very treacherous. Sure many people
> have done it successfully, but for those of us that have failed
> after having followed carefully /usr/src/UPDATING this is very
> discouraging.

It might help to know how it failed.

make buildworld
make buildkernel
make installkernel
(reboot single)
make installworld NOINFO=1
make installworld

worked in almost every case.  (and if Ruslan has/d MFC'd to 3.5 the
install-info changes, the NOINFO=1 installworld wouldn't be necessary)

Neil
-- 
Neil Blakey-Milner
Sunesi Clinical Systems
nbm@mithrandr.moria.org


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