Upgrading from 4.3 to 5.2
I have what is proving to be a difficult challenge. My friend wants to start using FreeBSD. Unfortunately the latest disc I have is 4.3, and I don't have easy access to broadband, so obtaining a newer iso is unlikely in the near future. Well I've been gradually upgrading mine and it's currently using 5.2. So I figured I'd try the routine the handbook gives on upgrading multiple machines. I installed 4.3 on his, and then I made buildkernel and buildworld on mine, and copied /usr/src and /usr/obj to his. But when I try to install anything on his, make crashes immediately saying it made an invalid system call. In fact, I can try make buildworld and buildkernel and it does the same thing. I tried making other makefiles I found on the hard drive to test make, and it worked fine. Yet it crashes immediately for any targets in /usr/src. I really don't want to be defeated, so can anyone help a bandwidth handicapped FreeBSD fan? Many thanks. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the Signing Bonus Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Upgrading from 4.3 to 5.2
I have what is proving to be a difficult challenge. My friend wants to start using FreeBSD. Unfortunately the latest disc I have is 4.3, and I don't have easy access to broadband, so obtaining a newer iso is unlikely in the near future. Well I've been gradually upgrading mine and it's currently using 5.2. So I figured I'd try the routine the handbook gives on upgrading multiple machines. I installed 4.3 on his, and then I made buildkernel and buildworld on mine, and copied /usr/src and /usr/obj to his. But when I try to install anything on his, make crashes immediately saying it made an invalid system call. In fact, I can try make buildworld and buildkernel and it does the same thing. I tried making other makefiles I found on the hard drive to test make, and it worked fine. Yet it crashes immediately for any targets in /usr/src. I really don't want to be defeated, so can anyone help a bandwidth handicapped FreeBSD fan? Many thanks. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the Signing Bonus Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrading from 4.3 to 5.2
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 21 January 2004 02:32 pm, David LeCount wrote: I have what is proving to be a difficult challenge. My friend wants to start using FreeBSD. Unfortunately the latest disc I have is 4.3, and I don't have easy access to broadband, so obtaining a newer iso is unlikely in the near future. Well I've been gradually upgrading mine and it's currently using 5.2. So I figured I'd try the routine the handbook gives on upgrading multiple machines. I installed 4.3 on his, and then I made buildkernel and buildworld on mine, and copied /usr/src and /usr/obj to his. But when I try to install anything on his, make crashes immediately saying it made an invalid system call. In fact, I can try make buildworld and buildkernel and it does the same thing. I tried making other makefiles I found on the hard drive to test make, and it worked fine. Yet it crashes immediately for any targets in /usr/src. I really don't want to be defeated, so can anyone help a bandwidth handicapped FreeBSD fan? Many thanks. In short - the upgrade from 4.3 to 5.2 is near impossibe. Not for the faint of heart. I was hard-pressed to get things on track from 4.9 In any event, good luck ... You'll need it. - -- Best regards, Chris -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFADuLfD5P/gMAbw2MRAkQyAJ9voswF95E17hIRIUZUf1p6jdKD0QCeO8o6 jfczfHcRMxWk6YKvyyQgSMM= =6X0q -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrading from 4.3 to 5.2
On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 12:32:16PM -0800, David LeCount wrote: I have what is proving to be a difficult challenge. My friend wants to start using FreeBSD. Unfortunately the latest disc I have is 4.3, and I don't have easy access to broadband, so obtaining a newer iso is unlikely in the near future. Well I've been gradually upgrading mine and it's currently using 5.2. So I figured I'd try the routine the handbook gives on upgrading multiple machines. I installed 4.3 on his, and then I made buildkernel and buildworld on mine, and copied /usr/src and /usr/obj to his. But when I try to install anything on his, make crashes immediately saying it made an invalid system call. In fact, I can try make buildworld and buildkernel and it does the same thing. I tried making other makefiles I found on the hard drive to test make, and it worked fine. Yet it crashes immediately for any targets in /usr/src. I really don't want to be defeated, so can anyone help a bandwidth handicapped FreeBSD fan? Many thanks. You'll get this problem if you don't use the correct order of operations to update your system. An upgrade from 4.3 may be possible, otherwise you could update to 4.9 first. Make sure you follow the updating instructions in /usr/src/UPDATING and the handbook precisely. Kris pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
