Date: Sat, 25 Oct 1997 17:19:46 -0400 From: Steve Sims <SimsS@IBM.Net> To: "'Jordan K. Hubbard'" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: "'hackers@freebsd.org'" <hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Something which 2.2.5 upgraders might find handy. Message-ID: <01BCE16B.BA31AFE0.SimsS@IBM.Net>
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Blew chunks for me on my stove-stock 2.2.2-RELEASE install. (This system was installed two days ago from the latest CD) It started to go well - pkg_add pulled the package from your directory. It backed up /etc to /usr/tmp/etc (so I was protected). I selected "Kernel Developer" and told it to use all of the existing network configuration. I selected FTP as the media. (NB: My default route on the laptop is via ep0 to my desktop running iij-ppp -auto) I couldn't get connected to ftp.freebsd.org. A curse on those SlackWare folks pulling down 'their' latest cut ;-) It attempted to gracefully recover, so I selected ftp4.freebsd.org (since it's closer to me). Segmentation fault. :-( Spilled core and gave me a prompt. The system was sufficiently hosed at this point that I went back to the CD, did a clean install. Restored /usr/tmp/etc/* back to /etc and I was in business again. Under 2.2.2-RELEASE. Oh well. I'll try again later tonight. ...sjs... On Friday, October 24, 1997 5:48 PM, Jordan K. Hubbard [SMTP:jkh@time.cdrom.com] wrote: > In ftp://freebsd.org/pub/jkh/225upgrade.tgz is a small package, simply > saying: > pkg_add ftp://freebsd.org/pub/jkh/225upgrade.tgz > > to launch the 2.2.5 upgrade on your machine. The key thing this > package does is upgrade your /stand to 2.2.5 first so that the > sysinstall upgrade code you run is the latest (and upgrade's been > changed a bit for 2.2.5). All you should need to do is select your > media type, the distributions you want to upgrade and you should be > off and running. > > Let me know how well it works in actual practice. :) > > Jordan >
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