On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 02:48:17PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: > I'm trying to get myself back on the FreeBSD bus after a long while off to > the side (on a bad track named Linux). I'm taking my FreeBSD-5.1 system, > I cvsupped it, and I'm trying to get it back to current, and having some > problems. I am hitting some problems, and i don't want to have a panic > here, so I'm going to ask some questions I would have considered (2 years > ago) as being dumb ... please put up with this a little. > > I finished the cvsup, rebuilt everything, and it built fine, but on > rebooting, it panics, something about reading a zero at address zero (I > can't copy this). I figured, just recompile the kernel ... so, I had to > actually install config, which meant I had to actually install libc .. > done, no problem so far. I did the config on the new config file, but > when I cd'ed to the kernel build dir and did the make depend, it came back > with a couple of unfamiliar errors:
You need to follow a very strict set of procedures to update across major revisions: see /usr/src/UPDATING. It may be easier to just reinstall from binary media. Kris
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