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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!blackbush.xlink.net!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: stuck at main menu Date: 27 Dec 1996 17:58:22 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 30 Message-ID: <5a12nu$df1@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <59cvbn$d0c@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg> <32BA3836.13728473@freebsd.org> <59fcr7$7gf@rcp6.elan.af.mil> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33189 Barry Mishler <mishler@mailhub.elan.af.mil> wrote: > I have FreeBSD 2.1.5 installed on a Dell Dimension XPS P100c. The boot disk > for version 2.1.5 worked just fine and I've been using that version for some > time now. But when I try to upgrade, I can't seem to get either the 2.1.6 > boot disk or the 2.2-ALPHA boot disk to NOT lock up my keyboard as soon as I > get the familiar blue main menu. The BETA bootfloppy, too? There happened to be some subtle stack problems in recent bootstraps. It would be interesting to know whether we still haven't found the problem. > So in addition to the this bit of information, can anybody tell me if it's > at all possible (and safe) to upgrade some other way? If you've got the diskspace, upgrading from source is certainly safe, too. Simply type: cd /usr/src make world Of course, this doesn't touch your /etc files, so you gotta merge them manually. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)