From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Nov 9 14:50:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from marlo.eagle.ca (marlo.eagle.ca [209.167.16.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA68E37B4C5 for ; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 14:50:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (freymann@localhost) by marlo.eagle.ca (8.9.2/8.9.1) with SMTP id RAA08852 for ; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 17:49:49 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 17:49:49 -0500 (EST) From: Gerry Freymann To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Questions after doing a cvsup In-Reply-To: <14859.1104.90246.424231@moriarity.grauel.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I had originally installed Freebsd 4.1.1-stable. I thought it would be a good idea to cvsup to the latest, so I used the instructions at http://www.mostgraveconcern.com/freebsd to guide me through my task. As always, there were differences in the instructions and what really happened. I did: -buildworld -buildkernel -installkernel (then in single user mode) cd /usr/src make installworld Update /etc cp -Rp /etc /etc.old /usr/sbin/mergemaster -v cd /dev ./MAKEDEV all Update stand cd /usr/src/release/sysinstall make clean make all install Great eh! When I rebooted, I saw the new kernel loading, but the hostname was forgotten and no network stuff loaded. Is there anything that talks about "mergemaster?" I have to admit I didn't really know wtf was going on there. I eventually decided just to rename /etc to /etc.new and my /etc.old back to /etc and reboot. Voila! My machine knows who it is, all the network stuff loads and the other boot up stuff in /usr/local/etc/rc.d loads. Confusing to this first-timer. Now when I go into /stand/sysinstall, do post config, and opt to install premade freebsd packages, when I select an FTP server, it says it doesn't have the files for 4.2-Beta! even ftp.freebsd.org! ug! Does this mean I should stick to using the files on my hard drive now? A pkg_version -v shows there are some items that can be updated. Tips? Suggestions? I have another machine to do the same things with next week. Would like to head into it slightly smarter ;-) Thanks. -Gerry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message