On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 12:22:42PM -0700, Rick Updegrove
typed:> Hi,
>
> I am a long time OpenBSD user trying FreeBSD. I am attempting to upgrade
my
> system from FreeBSD RELEASE 4.7 to "STABLE"
>
> This is my first post to this list so please be gentle : )
>
> I followed
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html
>
> But when I get to "21.4.9 Install the New System Binaries" This
happens:
>
> root@smeagol /usr/src # make installworld
> mkdir -p /tmp/install.16560
> for prog in [ awk cap_mkdb cat chflags chmod chown date echo egrep find
> grep ln make makewhatis mkdir mtree mv perl pwd_mkdb rm sed sh sysctl
test
> true uname wc zic; do cp `which $prog` /tmp/install.16560; done
> usage: cp [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-f | -i | -n] [-pv] src target
> cp [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-f | -i | -n] [-pv] src1 ... srcN directory
> *** Error code 64
>
> Stop in /usr/src.
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /usr/src.
> root@smeagol /usr/src #
>
> I am guessing that "for prog in [" can't find what its
looking for?
> Where is the closing "]" ?
> What dir is "cp" looking in?
> Am I am even close?
The "[" is not an opening bracket, it's a real program.
Try:
ln /bin/test /bin/[
and rerun make installworld.
cheers,
Ruben
>
>
> More (hopefully useful info)
>
> As you can see I booted to the new kernel sucessfully...
>
> root@smeagol /usr/src # uname -a
> FreeBSD smeagol.purgatory 4.8-STABLE FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE #0: Sun Apr 20
> 17:09:30 PDT 2003 root@smeagol.purgatory:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
> i386
>
> All the files appear to be in place?
>
> root@smeagol /usr/src # ls -la
> total 146k
> drwxr-xr-x 21 root wheel 512 Apr 20 14:07 ./
> drwxr-xr-x 18 root wheel 512 Apr 20 14:09 ../
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 4.6k Sep 5 1999 COPYRIGHT
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 8.3k Apr 16 02:59 Makefile
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 23k Apr 6 12:54 Makefile.inc1
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 9.5k Aug 27 1999 Makefile.upgrade
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 2.6k Apr 26 2002 README
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 41k Apr 3 22:25 UPDATING
> drwxr-xr-x 32 root wheel 512 Apr 20 13:52 bin/
> drwxr-xr-x 46 root wheel 1.0k Apr 20 13:57 contrib/
> drwxr-xr-x 7 root wheel 512 Apr 20 13:59 crypto/
> drwxr-xr-x 14 root wheel 2.0k Apr 20 13:59 etc/
> drwxr-xr-x 41 root wheel 1.0k Apr 20 14:00 games/
> drwxr-xr-x 6 root wheel 512 Apr 20 14:01 gnu/
> drwxr-xr-x 6 root wheel 1.5k Apr 20 14:01 include/
> drwxr-xr-x 7 root wheel 512 Apr 20 14:01 kerberos5/
> drwxr-xr-x 8 root wheel 512 Apr 20 14:01 kerberosIV/
> drwxr-xr-x 57 root wheel 1.5k Apr 20 14:02 lib/
> drwxr-xr-x 35 root wheel 1.0k Apr 20 14:02 libexec/
> drwxr-xr-x 10 root wheel 512 Apr 20 14:02 release/
> drwxr-xr-x 81 root wheel 1.5k Apr 20 14:02 sbin/
> drwxr-xr-x 6 root wheel 512 Apr 20 14:03 secure/
> drwxr-xr-x 23 root wheel 512 Apr 20 14:03 share/
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 3.7k Apr 20 13:51 stable-supfile
> drwxr-xr-x 49 root wheel 1.0k Apr 20 14:06 sys/
> drwxr-xr-x 8 root wheel 512 Apr 20 14:06 tools/
> drwxr-xr-x 219 root wheel 3.5k Apr 20 14:07 usr.bin/
> drwxr-xr-x 156 root wheel 3.0k Apr 20 14:08 usr.sbin/
>
>
> I have been googling but this is a lot of error message to google for...
> any hints would be greatly appreciated.
>
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