I've been away from *NIX a few years. I have been playing with FreeBSD for a week or so now with mixed results. I am using release 4.11 because for some reason 5.3 has problems seeing my hard drives. 4.11, Red Hat Linux and NetBSD have no such trouble.

This afternoon I used the "Updating Sources with CVSup" in the FreeBSD Cheat Sheets and everything worked as advertized. I believe that it advised against using "make world" and suggested that I use "19.4.1 The Canonical Way to Update Your System" in the Handbook. I went through the following steps with no problem:

# make buildworld
# make installworld
# mergemaster
# reboot

After that, I ran into problems. It took me a little while to figure out how to do "boot -s". However, it appears that a lot of the directories aren't mounted and the next scripts aren't in the path. For example, I can't figure out how to do the "mergemaster -p".

Any help would be much appreciated.

Jim Campbell


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