okay. i am getting a serious stomach ache. i am looking at this page:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html
and my head is spinning. i don't feel good. i am halfway thru doing
something or other sorta the wrong way. right now i got a prompt.. i
am running xfce4, but i can't jump to superuser. i push the button
and the laptop shuts down when i want it to. the thing is when
i did mergemaster -p i got into big problems i don't understand why.
this guy told me how to do vipw like this:
TeRReF:
In single user mode:
mount -a
/usr/sbin/vipw
then use this inside vipw:
:wq
That should do it...
that helped a lot.. umm.. i felt stupid i guess. i have been using vi for
20 years.. but still.. i really needed this. i feel i need something like
this for mergemaster - p or whatever step i should start from. i am
sorry for being so stupid.
On Thu, 5 Apr 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
i am still trying to follow the below instructions. haven't done so yet,
going away for the weekend.
// change to root
$ su -
// remove /usr/obj to speed up the build
# cd /usr/obj && chflags -R noschg * && rm -rf *
didn't do this.. but i guess that shouldn't matter.
// Build a new world
# cd /usr/src
# make -j4 buildworld
// build a new kernel (do not put any job options for this build)
didn't use "-j4" but otherwise i believe we did this.
# make buildkernel
// install the new kernel
gheist seemed to be aware of this and had an opinion about not
needing it.
# make installkernel
// reboot to single user mode (boot -s from the loader prompt)
# shutdown -r now
did this.
// After reboot
// check + mount all filesystems
# fsck -p
did this
# mount -u /
# mount -a -t ufs
did merely "mount -a"
# swapon -a
// prepare /etc for the world install
didn't do this.
# mergemaster -p
// install the new world
this step is where all hell broke loose. i got this strange question
that i didn't know how to respond to. my prompt changed. it felt
like things went seriously wrong here.
# cd /usr/src ; make installworld
// run mergemaster again
# mergemaster
// reboot to an updated system
# shutdown -r now
All these instructions are in the handbook.
Cheers
Tom
[1] http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html
[2]
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html
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