On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 10:00:46PM -0700, Ben Jackson wrote:
> I just did that upgrade (been with freebsd since 1.1!) and everything
> seems pretty smooth. I did a 2.2->3.1 upgrade on another machine so
> I'm probably glossing over some aout issues (mainly that you have to
> find them and move them into a separate directory).
>
> One thing that confused me for several days and I just figured out:
> sysctl moved from /usr/sbin to /sbin. I have /usr/sbin in my path first,
> so I was getting to old one. It almost works, but not quite. It only
> displays about 15 `kern.' variables and then quits.
>
> Perhaps the upgrade option should at least warn of that possibility
> (maybe obvious, but somewhat unexpected) or even include a list of files
> that once existed in FreeBSD but no longer do (to facilitate removing
> them). I'm thinking about digging out a 2.2.x install cd to build that
> list for myself.
>
Just `make installworld DESTDIR=/fresh-install' and check it against
your /.
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