From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 26 22:55:22 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA06859 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 22:55:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.greatbasin.net (mail.greatbasin.net [207.228.35.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA06854 for ; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 22:55:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@jgl.reno.nv.us) Received: from danco (rno-max3-37.gbis.net [207.228.60.229]) by mail.greatbasin.net (8.9.2/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA29930; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 22:55:02 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <01c901be49c1$f6f32c00$0200000a@danco.home> From: "Dan O'Connor" To: "Jason C. Wells" , "Benjamin Krajmalnik" Cc: "FreeBSD-questions" Subject: Re: Updating 3.0-Release to -STABLE Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 22:54:53 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >>What is the best way to update my system from -Release to -STABLE? >>Once I have the source files, what do I need to do - make world? >>TIA. > >Yes, make world will do it. There is more. You need a bootstrap that will >load an elf kernel. You need to read /usr/src/UPDATING and take a poke >through the /usr/src/Makefiles. You need to update your devices buy >/dev/MAKEDEV. You need a new kernel compiled. > >These are all referenced in the mailing list archives in -current and >-stable. There are some odd URLS for you to look at that will help. Isn't 3.0-RELEASE already elf by default (at least on the Walnut Creek CD)? --Dan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message