Thanks to everyone who has been answering my questions over the past
several days (weeks) concerning installing and upgrading FreeBSD.
I am now going to try again. I am installing v. 4.8 on a server. This
server is to be a Postfix w/Courier IMAP server integrated into a
Linux-based network, authentication centralized using PAM & LDAP.
That's about it.
Now, some people might say, don't install 4.8 go straight for 5.x. The
reason I am doing this, however, is because I want to not only know how
to perform upgrades, but I want hands on experience. So, hopefully I
am not making this too difficult for me.
Finally, while I'm reinstalling 4.8, I would like to know something
about the following.
It seems to me that cvsup is actually downloading the entire repository
of packages for FreeBSD. Is that really what one has to do to perform
an upgrade? It seems like what you would need to do is merely upgrade
those packages necessary for the latest kernel, then upgrade the
kernel, then upgrade all installed packages. (Packages meaning ports,
right?)
Thanks again!
Curtis
On 23 Aug, 2004, at 11:10, Steven Friedrich wrote:
On Monday 23 August 2004 01:58 pm, Curtis Vaughan wrote:
On 23 Aug, 2004, at 10:51, Steven Friedrich wrote:
On Monday 23 August 2004 01:39 pm, Curtis Vaughan wrote:
So, could someone tell me if my system is salvageable or not and
what
I
need to do?
Or, should I just start over?
Curtis
On 21 Aug, 2004, at 17:06, Curtis Vaughan wrote:
So, it is my understanding that I did in fact do things right (or
that
is
to say that The Complete FreeBSD had the right directions. But
that
something else went wrong.
BTW, I installed 4.8 from scratch. Then spent a couple of days
preparing
to do a cvsup making sure that I set everything up right (sources:
Complete FreeBSD, freebsd.org, and this list.
Then I did the cvsup. Everything else I've already written about
in
a
previous letter.
Unfortunately, it doesn't seem that booting into an old kernel is
an
option. I have looked at the files on my system and there is no
kernel.old or anything like it. There is only a kernel directory
under
the
/boot/ directory.
What information do I need to provide to perhaps salvage this
system?
And what steps did I possibly miss?
Curtis
"Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Yup. Go back to the top --- I missed where
in your list of steps you actually *installed*
the new kernel...
That would be where he said:
make kernel
which is equivalent to "make buildkernel installkernel".
It doesn't explain quite what's happening here, though -- and he
didn't even *hint* at such basic clues as what version he was
updating
from or to (there may be extra steps for large updating jumps).
Booting the old kernel is certainly worth a try before starting
over,
though; the system is quite likely to be salvageable.
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Try to boot into single-user mode, i.e., when the system boots, it'll
display
a 10 second countdown. Hit spacebar to abort the countdown. Then
type
boot
-s and it'll boot into single-user mode with only the root partition
mounted.
type mount -a to get the other partitions mounted.
Then redo your buildworld,etc., but skip mergemaster stuff.
Here's the steps:
cd /usr/src
make buildworld
make buildkernel KERNCONF=yourkernelname (you DID copy GENERIC and
customize
it didn't you?)
make installkernel KERNCONF=yourkernelname
make installworld
reboot
Skipping the mergemaster stuff will mean that any recent changes to
various
config files will be missing, but you should be able to come up
multi-user.
If these steps fail, it'll probably be easier to just reinstall.
As I wrote in an earlier letter, I can't get into single-user mode.
Here's what happens after using the boot -s option:
It's asks: Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh
But when I hit RETURN, it says: pid 7 (ssh), uid -: exited on signal
12
Aug 20 08:41:58 init: single user shell terminated, restarting
and then it asks again: Enter full path
I have tried also manually entering in:
/bin/sh
/bin/csh
/bin/chsh
/usr/local/bin/bash
etc.
etc.
Curtis
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unless you are expert enough to use FreeBSD boot and repair floppies, I
recommend you just reinstall.
