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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