From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 28 12:26:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.enteract.com (mail.enteract.com [207.229.143.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17A4A152BD for ; Thu, 28 Oct 1999 12:26:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Received: from shell-2.enteract.com (dscheidt@shell-2.enteract.com [207.229.143.41]) by mail.enteract.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA95355; Thu, 28 Oct 1999 14:25:03 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 14:25:03 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt To: Tom Embt Cc: J McKitrick , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: upgrading/CVSUPping with bad ISP connection In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19991028151057.01092eb8@mail.embt.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Tom Embt wrote: > Make sure you've installed the mergemaster port, it's not part of the base > distribution. > > This is the (slightly abbreviated) order of things: > > 1. Sync your source tree (eg, with cvsup). > 2. Check /usr/src/UPDATING for any important info. I very strongly suggest building a new kernel, installing it, and rebooting *before* building world. It is much easier to recover from a broken kernel than a broken world. New kernels work with old worlds, but the reverse isn't always true. At some point, this order will be required, since there are a bunch of changes in -CURRENT that require it, so now is a good time to start gettng used to it. When you try and config the kernel, you might get an error saying that you haven't got a new enough config. If you do see this, do the following: # cp /usr/sbin/config /usr/sbin/config.old # cd /usr/src/user.sbin/config # make cleandir # make && make install and try again. Doing things this way isn't any harder, and is much safer. It might take a bit longer since you should do a reboot after make installworld, but I think a machine that doesn't break is worth it. David Scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message