Recently tried to upgrade my 4.5 box using the 4.7 CDs and ran into a problem which left me with a partially upgraded system.
I have a 14 GB hard disk so I chose to load all of the canned distributions. During the early stages of the upgrade, I received a message indicating that "/usr/src" was not loaded and should be upgraded using the CVSup instead. OK. The next set of messages were more problematic and appeared in the following order: Add of packages freetype2-2.1.1 aborted, error code 1 Loading of dependent package freetype2-2.1.2 failed Loading of dependent package XFree86 -libraries -4.2.1-1 failed Loading of dependent XFree86-FontServer -4.2.0 failed The next message appeared after the program was "...making slices...": Hmmm, couldn't even extract the bin distribution. Start over. So, I did...three times not realizing that my original kernel was being trashed along with my config files. I'm a newbie of sorts and I've spent the last week fussing and fuming over the time wasted so far with, what I thought, should have been a relatively simple process. I'm over it and ready to move on. I ran the upgrade again, this time leaving out anything to do with the X System. It ran successfully (?) however, I need to restore/reinstall certain files this weekend to make it whole again. What did I miss? Does one have to become an "expert" to work with this OS? BTW, I did back up my 4.5 system before attempting the upgrade. Thanks. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message