From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 29 12:35:35 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBCE337B401 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 12:35:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24F6F43E7B for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 12:35:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from owt.com (owt-207-41-94-232.owt.com [207.41.94.232]) by rutger.owt.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA24388; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 12:35:22 -0800 Message-ID: <3DBEF109.7090200@owt.com> Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 12:35:21 -0800 From: Kent Stewart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, es-mx MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Poland Cc: s.wingate@cox.net, ukla@attbi.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Yes, but how do I upgrade? References: <20021029201613.PKGT14315.fed1mtao04.cox.net@smtp.west.cox.net> <29432.63.104.35.130.1035922900.squirrel@samaria.polands.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug Poland wrote: > Steve Wingate said: > >>>From: Steve Warwick >>>Date: 2002/10/29 Tue PM 03:10:44 EST >>>Subject: Yes, but how do I upgrade? >>> >>>Hi >>> >>>I have a 4.3 BSD machine to upgrade, and it's a production >>>machine :( >>> >>>Ok, got that, but how do I upgrade? >>> >> >>Theoretically, it CAN be as simple as >>1. cvsup -h cvsup1.freebsd.org >>/usr/share/examples/cvsup/stable-supfile 2. cd /usr/src >>3. make world >>4. make kernel KERNCONF=yourkernelfile >>5. mergemaster >>6. reboot >> > > Wouldn't a prudent person include: > 4.5 make installkernel KERNCONF=yourkernelfile > 4.6 make installworld > There are a number of changes going from 4.3 to 4.7. The install problem because smmsp is missing from group and passwd is one of them that is covered in /usr/src/UPDATING. A "make world" won't work because of this. I also strongly believe in the reboot to single user mode before the installworld. If the system hasn't been updated since 4.3, the installed ports are probably a year out of date. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message