Yo list! I've found out that there are some hurdles in doing this upgrade, as also pointed out by another user [0]. The problem is in make and I think it happened during this change [1]. It can be solved by installing the new make first, before the installkernel and installworld process, e.g.: [ this assumes you've already built world from another box and NFS-exported the /usr/src and /usr/obj directories, and mounting them from the client ] # cd /usr/src/usr.bin/make && make install [ 'rehash' if using csh. then create the pf user/groups, as pf became officially imported in 5.3, refer to src/etc/master.passwd and group files ] # cd /usr/src && make installkernel && make installworld [ mergemaster ] Thanks. [0] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2005-June/015618.html [1] http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/Makefile.inc1.diff?r1=1.433&r2=1.434&f=h -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: NFS upgrading from 5.2.1->5.4 Type: application/octet-stream Size: 0 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20050614/875edf6e/NFSupgradingfrom5.2.1-5.obj