On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 2:09 AM, Jeremy Chadwick <[email protected]> wrote: > When you installed from CD, what things did you select in the menus, > e.g. base, kernel, docs, info, etc.? Did you select "src?" If so, did > you "adopt" the sources? http://www.cvsup.org/faq.html#caniadopt keep > reading for why I ask this.
I did the express install, all packages, with the ports collection. > Can you please provide your /etc/make.conf from this system, as well as > how you built world (commands, etc.)? /etc/make.conf: # added by use.perl 2010-06-16 12:14:26 PERL_VERSION=5.10.1 I think perl was installed when I told /usr/ports to make me an emacs. To build the world I just type "make buildworld" (after a cvsup of stable-supfile). > Also, when you installed FreeBSD, did you completely format the disk > (re-create all the filesystems, etc.)? Or are you re-using filesystems? > You said you "grabbed an old disk", and you also said this, which is > worrisome: The old disk was a linux drive. The install disk was unable to write to /dev/ad0 on it. I had to boot from my old FreeBSD drive and force the file systems to mount without fscking. The kernel detected the linux drive as a geom system, but it couldn't destroy the system. I had to unload the module from the kernel, and then I was able to write to the raw device. I zeroed out the MBR with dd, and then went back to the install disk which could finally create partitions on it. I used the auto defaults in the install menus. > If you wanted to try something, I would recommend downloading a > 8.1-PRERELEASE snapshots and installing that. > > ftp://ftp4.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/201006/ That would probably be the fastest and easiest thing to do, but it feels like I'd be admitting defeat. And it would take forever to compile emacs again. I have an iso downloading now. > Why would you have to refresh the base packages from the CD? You were > *building* world, not installing it, when you saw the above error. I > don't see how reinstalling binaries into /usr, /usr/lib, etc. would "get > you a stable system" when all that was broken was buildworld. Why? Because I'd compiled and installed a handful of libraries from 8.1 that weren't compatible with all my other libraries, and I didn't use the option for install to keep a backup, so the CD was my only source of bringing back working libraries. > | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | I got my first computer in February of 1977. It had a game that showed a rocket ship (made of gigantic mono-chrome pixels) launching if I answered simple math questions correctly. -- -- Schlake _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
