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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD upgrade... Date: 13 Oct 1993 17:38:56 GMT Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman MT Lines: 46 Message-ID: <29hefg$7u9@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <haley.750498537@husc8> <1993Oct13.161139.19300@news.csuohio.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <1993Oct13.161139.19300@news.csuohio.edu>, Steve Ratliff <stever@csuohio.edu> wrote: > This is a "me to" post with annotations ;) >: 1. update is the name of a utility on the PATH. >: solution: run ./update to force the issue... Still, it's >: namespace pollution. > 1.a The latest and greatest now official script is still set up for > the GAMMA source packaging and not the new EPSILON source > packaging. Minor hack, but still a pain. As of late this weekend, this is not the case. I fixed the script to work with the new naming scheme. (There was some miscommunication of the FreeBSD members) > Big problem with this as it bombed half way through the install of gcc > overwriting the 1.39 version and leaving me without a working compiler. Fixed now. You can install the gcc1_bin.tgz package available on the archive sites to get a working compiler again. >: >: solution: find and install same... Mayhap need to make sure >: this is compiled and installed FIRST. > > Wasn't lucky enough to have spare gcc. The gcc spare was his biggest problem aside from the upgrade problems. > I am planning on now trying the binary upgrade. Though if that >fails I guess I'll have to do a complete re-install. Follow the same advice I gave him, and you should be in fat city. The upgrade script was fixed to work now with the current distribution. I just went and checked the distribution today to make sure I didn't forget anything else, and I *think* I've got them all. Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | Freely available *nix clones benefit everyone, nate@cs.montana.edu | so let's not compete with each other, let's work #: (406) 994-4836 | compete with folks who try to tie us down to home #: (406) 586-0579 | proprietary O.S.'s (Microsloth) - Me