Ralph wrote:
Hey, I have an ancicent box I've inherited, output of
uname -a is:
bash-2.04# uname -a
FreeBSD dropbox.xxxx.xxxx 4.2-RELEASE FreeBSD
4.2-RELEASE #0: Mon Nov 20 13:02:55 GMT 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC i386
Obviously, she's got a few miles on her, and cvsup wasn't installed. I downloaded the tarball from the FreeBSD ftp server, untar'd it, and tried to do a make install, then got this ugliness:
<error> gzip -cn pkg_version.1 > pkg_version.1.gz ===> Installing for pkg_install-20040802 ===> Generating temporary packing list ln: illegal option -- h usage: ln [-fisv] file1 file2 ln [-fisv] file ... directory link file1 file2 *** Error code 1
Stop in /usr/ports/sysutils/pkg_install. *** Error code 1
Stop in /usr/ports/textproc/sed_inplace. *** Error code 1
Stop in /usr/ports/lang/ezm3. *** Error code 1
Stop in /usr/ports/net/cvsup.
</error>
Can someone help?
Thanks in advance.
Tried pkg_add? Probably won't work as it's unlikely to find packages dated from that time, but might be worth a shot, as it would only take a second to try.
You might try looking around for a cvsup version that's contemporary to the boxen and going from there. But a quick Google doesn't show it to me. OTOH, it's likely to need to be "stepping stoned" quite a bit anyway, so what not backup the data and do a clean install of 4.10 or 5.3?
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