Re: CVSup update or upgrade

2008-02-01 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 07:57:49PM -0600, Chris typed: NOTE: I don't use mergemaster unless I go from say 6.3 to 7.0 Not wise. New features and fixes are applied to configuration files and rc scripts regu;arly. You'll probably miss them. STABLE is the security fix branch. Wrong. According to

Re: CVSup update or upgrade

2008-02-01 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 07:41:24AM -0500, Gerard wrote: On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 19:57:49 -0600 Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Assuming you went from 6.3-RELEASE to 6.3-STABLE and also assuming you do not have customization in /etc - here's what I do... After a cvsup of the src tree

Re: CVSup update or upgrade

2008-02-01 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 09:45:30AM -0500, Gerard wrote: On Fri, 1 Feb 2008 15:14:59 +0100 Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: {snip] Going to single user mode is the less important part of rebooting. The other part is that after the reboot you will be running the *new* kernel which

Re: CVSup update or upgrade

2008-02-01 Thread Gerard
On Fri, 1 Feb 2008 15:14:59 +0100 Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: {snip] Going to single user mode is the less important part of rebooting. The other part is that after the reboot you will be running the *new* kernel which might possibly be needed for a successful installworld. It is

Re: CVSup update or upgrade

2008-02-01 Thread Gerard
On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 19:57:49 -0600 Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Assuming you went from 6.3-RELEASE to 6.3-STABLE and also assuming you do not have customization in /etc - here's what I do... After a cvsup of the src tree (ensuring I want the STABLE branch (*default release=cvs

Re: CVSup update or upgrade

2008-02-01 Thread Mel
On Friday 01 February 2008 00:47:12 Allen wrote: Now, this wouldn't work for some reason or another, but the system seemed to be doing just fine. I did uname -a and sure enough I had 6.3 Stable going. However, when typing kdm to load up that so I can use a gui, it no longer loads, at all, it

Re: CVSup update or upgrade

2008-02-01 Thread Chris
On Fri, 1 Feb 2008 14:12:43 +0100 Ruben de Groot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 07:57:49PM -0600, Chris typed: 23.2.2.1 What Is FreeBSD-STABLE? FreeBSD-STABLE is our development branch from which major releases are made. Changes go into this branch at a different pace, and

CVSup update or upgrade

2008-01-31 Thread Allen
Hello, I've been reading over my library of FreeBSD books, which I may add is impressive due to me buying EVERY book available on Freebsdmall and also buying the PowerPak to make sure my Library is complete, and also I've been reading the freebsd.org docs because I'm working on getting an upgrade

Re: CVSup update or upgrade

2008-01-31 Thread Chris
On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:47:12 -0500 Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I've been reading over my library of FreeBSD books, which I may add is impressive due to me buying EVERY book available on Freebsdmall and also buying the PowerPak to make sure my Library is complete, and also I've

Re: CVSup update or upgrade

2008-01-31 Thread Chris
On Fri, 1 Feb 2008 02:21:42 + (UTC) Jona Joachim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2008-02-01, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:47:12 -0500 Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I've been reading over my library of FreeBSD books, which I may add is impressive

Re: CVSup update or upgrade

2008-01-31 Thread Jona Joachim
On 2008-02-01, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:47:12 -0500 Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I've been reading over my library of FreeBSD books, which I may add is impressive due to me buying EVERY book available on Freebsdmall and also buying the PowerPak to