Re: Upgrading question (issue?) - was:(no subject)

2006-05-16 Thread Chris H.
Hello, and thank you for your reply. Quoting Duane Whitty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Chris H. wrote: Quoting "Chris H." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hello, I have a question as to accomplishing an upgrade of *only* what ports I already have installed. That is to say; I somewhat frequently suck down the lat

Re: Upgrading question (issue?) - was:(no subject)

2006-05-15 Thread Duane Whitty
Chris H. wrote: Quoting "Chris H." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hello, I have a question as to accomplishing an upgrade of *only* what ports I already have installed. That is to say; I somewhat frequently suck down the latest source for system and ports for the release I run on my servers (RELENG_5_4 -

Upgrading question (issue?) - was:(no subject)

2006-05-15 Thread Chris H.
Quoting "Chris H." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hello, I have a question as to accomplishing an upgrade of *only* what ports I already have installed. That is to say; I somewhat frequently suck down the latest source for system and ports for the release I run on my servers (RELENG_5_4 - soon to be 5_5) a

Re: Upgrading Question

2005-11-28 Thread Laurent C
2005/11/26, Yousef Raffah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hello Everyone, Hello, I just thought of upgrading from FreeBSD 6 BETA5 to 6-STABLE so I > followed the http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/makeworld.html manual > page. > I reached to a point where I had to reboot into single user mode to > co

Re: Upgrading Question

2005-11-26 Thread Ronald Klop
On Sat, 26 Nov 2005 15:44:46 +0100, Yousef Raffah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 16:56 +0300, Yousef Raffah wrote: On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 19:17 +0530, Joseph Koshy wrote: > > Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad0s2a > > > I tried and tried and kept on trying with no luck, I

Re: Upgrading Question

2005-11-26 Thread Yousef Raffah
On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 16:56 +0300, Yousef Raffah wrote: > On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 19:17 +0530, Joseph Koshy wrote: > > > Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad0s2a > > > > > I tried and tried and kept on trying with no luck, I > > > disable some modules during kernel bootup and unset some > > > varia

Re: Upgrading Question

2005-11-26 Thread Joseph Koshy
yr> This is the output of dmesg with my boot yr> /boot/kernel.old/kernel: You use a number of devices in your machine that I'm unfamiliar with. So, YMMV with the advice below :). yr> FreeBSD 6.0-BETA5 #9: Thu Oct 20 21:36:39 AST 2005 yr> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MYKERNEL yr> m

Re: Upgrading Question

2005-11-26 Thread Yousef Raffah
On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 19:17 +0530, Joseph Koshy wrote: > > Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad0s2a > > > I tried and tried and kept on trying with no luck, I > > disable some modules during kernel bootup and unset some > > variables but no luck! > > > Anyhow, one of the guys on IRC told me to b

Re: Upgrading Question

2005-11-26 Thread Joseph Koshy
> Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad0s2a > I tried and tried and kept on trying with no luck, I > disable some modules during kernel bootup and unset some > variables but no luck! > Anyhow, one of the guys on IRC told me to build a GENERIC > kernel to at least boot so I built it but it panicke

Upgrading Question

2005-11-26 Thread Yousef Raffah
Hello Everyone, I just thought of upgrading from FreeBSD 6 BETA5 to 6-STABLE so I followed the http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/makeworld.html manual page. I reached to a point where I had to reboot into single user mode to continue with make installworld and mergemaster but I wasn't able to bo

Re: newbie upgrading question

2004-05-26 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 01:17:04PM -0400, Brian Smith wrote: > I have been working with FreeBSD for about a month now, and it is my first > foray into the BSD/UNIX/Linux world. I have a question about upgrading. I > have tried several different ways to go about upgrading, and still can't > seem