From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 28 09:15:41 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id JAA11758 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 28 Aug 1995 09:15:41 -0700 Received: from cmc.eng.comsat.com (cmc.eng.comsat.com [134.133.169.1]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id JAA11745 for ; Mon, 28 Aug 1995 09:15:39 -0700 Received: from cmc (cmc.eng.comsat.com) by cmc.eng.comsat.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA02271; Mon, 28 Aug 95 12:14:31 EDT Date: Mon, 28 Aug 1995 12:11:21 -0400 (EDT) From: MARC Giannoni Subject: Installing 'FreeBSD-stable' compiled sources. To: questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I successfully SUPped FreeBSD-stable from ftp.cdrom.com. This was easy! Next, I got the new sources to compile but I had to blow away the current system's "/usr/include". This took about two days! Then, when I went to install the new binaries, everything blew up when the shared libraries were updated. I was able to restore them from a backup so no harm done. Whew! What is the suggested bootstrapping procedure here. I am currently running FreeBSD-2.0 from Walnut Creek CD-Rom. I believe that FreeBSD-stable is actually FreeBSD-2.1. Am I doing something really stupid? -OR- Is there a much easier way to accomplish what I am trying to do (Upgrade!)? | Marc V. Giannoni | Voice: (301) 428-2547 | | COMSAT Mobile Communications | Fax: (301) 601-5959 | | 22300 Comsat Drive | Internet: marc@cmc.eng.comsat.com | | Clarksburg, MD 20871 | Title: Software Engineer |