I'm trying to upgrade my 4.10 workstation to 5.3 but I'm not having any luck. In my search to find an answer I found some info saying that one shouldn't upgrade branches.
That brings me to my first question. Should I upgrade from 4.10 to 5.3 or should I just setup a new 5.3 workstation? Here's where I am having trouble. 1. when trying to install the kernel I get this message telling me there is no /boot/device.hints file. After doing some research I found that there is a GENERIC.hints file in /usr/src/something/i386/conf/ (don't remember the exact location). I placed that file in /boot/ and installed the kernel. The kernel installs but I don't know if the GENERIC.hints file will work when I reboot. All I can say is that the kernel installed. That's when I moved on to mergemaster. 2. I had some trouble with mergemaster. Don't know what I did wrong here so I can't say much about it. I don't think I've ever had much luck with mergemaster. I'm going to give the upgrade another shot so maybe it will work this next time. 3. Somehow I was able to finish the mergemaster step and move on to installing my world. I did "make installworld" and a bunch of things went by on the screen and then I got errors and "stop". I think it said something about a core dump. All I got out of it was that my upgrade didn't work. I used g4u to backup my 4.10 workstation before I did the upgrade. I'm doing my second restore as I write this. As soon as it finishes I'll cvsup and start all over. If anyone can tell me what I'm doing wrong let me know. Also, if you think I should just dump 4.10 and do a new install of 5.3 I can do that as well. I've got another drive I can install 5.3 on. I'm hoping I can upgrade so I don't have to configure a new 5.3 system. -- Damien Hull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
