From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 30 17:36:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA00409 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 17:36:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA00397 for ; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 17:36:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id MAA11048; Thu, 31 Dec 1998 12:04:53 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id MAA38918; Thu, 31 Dec 1998 12:04:56 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19981231120455.I32696@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 12:04:55 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: sporkl@ix.netcom.com, fbsdqs Subject: Re: 2.2.8->3.0 upgrade References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Spike Gronim on Wed, Dec 30, 1998 at 08:01:53PM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, 30 December 1998 at 20:01:53 -0500, Spike Gronim wrote: > > I am planning on upgrading to 3.0 when it goes stable on Jan 15. I am > running 2.2.8-STABLE and I have some questions regarding the upgrade. Then subscribe to FreeBSD-current. This isn't optional. > 1. How do I compile an ELF kernel? You first need an ELF world. There are instructions at the top of /usr/src/Makefile. > How do I install the new boot loader? # disklabel -B da0 (or whatever your system disk is) > 2. Will all the ports work with an ELF system? Most of them. Some are marked as ``broken for ELF'' > Will my already installed ports work with ELF? They should do. > Most importantly, will XFree86 3.3.3 compiled on a 2.2.8 system work > with ELF? Yes. > Will StarOffice 4.0 work with ELF? I don't know. I didn't think StarOffice worked too well on anything. WordPerfect 8.0 works with ELF. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message