More Upgrading questions

2006-07-05 Thread Rob Baldassano
Hi guys, ANy issue with adding X to an upgrade when the original version on the system did not have it? (I listened to way too much bad advice setting this system up with my co-worker, now I have to fix it) --Rob - Eirik Goransson / Rob Baldassano

Re: More Upgrading questions

2006-07-05 Thread Spruell, Darren-Perot
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ANy issue with adding X to an upgrade when the original version on the system did not have it? (I listened to way too much bad advice setting this system up with my co-worker, now I have to fix it) No. The only thing it does is unpack a distribution set (a bunch

Re: More Upgrading questions

2006-07-05 Thread Mike Piety
On Wed, 5 Jul 2006 08:46:52 -0700 (PDT) Rob Baldassano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys, ANy issue with adding X to an upgrade when the original version on the system did not have it? (I listened to way too much bad advice setting this system up with my co-worker, now I have to fix it)

Re: More Upgrading questions

2006-07-05 Thread Josh Grosse
On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 10:15:53AM -0700, Spruell, Darren-Perot wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ANy issue with adding X to an upgrade when the original version on the system did not have it? (I listened to way too much bad advice setting this system up with my co-worker, now I have

Re: More Upgrading questions

2006-07-05 Thread Josh Grosse
On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 01:36:40PM -0400, I wrote: In addition, you might need machdep.allowaperture=2, per /etc/X11R6/README. A fairly obvious typo. It should be per /usr/X11R6/README.

Re: Upgrading questions

2006-07-04 Thread mike
On Tue, 4 Jul 2006 00:34:53 -0700 (PDT) Rob Baldassano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been running OpenBSD 3.6 since the day it came out, and am now in need up going to 3.9 The question is: What upgrade issues have folks run into? I'm running it on a DELL desktop. BTW, some of the

Re: Upgrading questions

2006-07-04 Thread Rogier Krieger
On 7/4/06, mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 4 Jul 2006 00:34:53 -0700 (PDT) Rob Baldassano wrote: I have been running OpenBSD 3.6 since the day it came out, and am now in need up going to 3.9 why don't you start here: http://www.openbsd.org/faq/upgrade39.html Please be careful with

Re: Upgrading questions

2006-07-04 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 12:34:53AM -0700, Rob Baldassano wrote: I have been running OpenBSD 3.6 since the day it came out, and am now in need up going to 3.9 The question is: What upgrade issues have folks run into? I'm running it on a DELL desktop. BTW, some of the reasons I want to

Re: Upgrading questions

2006-07-04 Thread Sigfred HÃ¥versen
Joachim Schipper wrote: Several Java implementations are in ports; Sun Java works on i386 only, I believe. Sun Java 1.5 works on amd64 in -current. /Sigfred

Re: Upgrading questions

2006-07-04 Thread steven mestdagh
Joachim Schipper [2006-07-04, 15:13:35]: Several Java implementations are in ports; Sun Java works on i386 only, I believe. kurt has enabled jdk 1.5 on amd64 as well some time ago (-current only). -- steven Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm

Re: Upgrading questions

2006-07-04 Thread Nick Holland
Rob Baldassano wrote: I have been running OpenBSD 3.6 since the day it came out, and am now in need up going to 3.9 The question is: What upgrade issues have folks run into? Very few, myself. I've got at least one machine running which started out with OpenBSD 3.1, and has been remotely

Re: Upgrading questions

2006-07-04 Thread Nick Guenther
On 7/4/06, Rob Baldassano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a former co-worker says NO don't do that, never trust upgrades. I tend to disagree. Are they a windows user? -Nick

Re: Upgrading questions

2006-07-04 Thread Rob Baldassano
Thank you everyone for the useful information. I think that this is actually the most I have ever received on any list when I have asked a (to me) fairly complex question. I have now been armed with insightful, and meaningful information that I can move forward with. I'll be