Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1996 11:53:27 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: Gary Crutcher <gcrutchr@nightflight.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FBSD 2.1 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960113115014.2558A-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <2.2.16.19960113091004.31f71ce2@nightflight.com>
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On Sat, 13 Jan 1996, Gary Crutcher wrote: > Well, I upgraded from 2.05 to 2.1 last night. Only problems I had was that > the Matshushita CD-ROM driver would not compile (something about NMAT??). So > I commented it out of my kernel configuration. The only other thing that > happened was that the services file got truncated to 5 entries. What a > surprise when telnet and Popper were not working! Odd about the matcd driver. I don't use it so ??? My services got eaten too. I just grabbed the one from -current. > I assume the upgrade option on the CD-ROM copied all the new src files to my > hard drive, or should I have selected a Full Installation from the NEWBIE Menu? you might try this: 1. Copy your kernel config to a safe place 2. rm -r /usr/src/sys 3. Reinstall the kernel sources I've found this is a pretty good solution for problematic compiles, when the config file is OK. Did you compare your matcd0 line to the one in LINT and made sure there were no changes? > I have tested Xinsides X-Server and a few other programs and have had no > problems or core dumps or anything of that nature. Kewl. > I guess the install also updated my mt program, but I cannot get the > 'retension' command to work. I get an unknown command error. Is there an > update to this, as I have seen E-mail about this command posted? Can't say on mt. We had enough problems getting dump working on my friend's machine. > Should I upgrade all my ports to the 2.1 versions or is it okay to use the > 2.05 ports I originally installed? No, the old ports will still work. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@gladstone.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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