From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 24 12:15:11 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA12644 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 24 Oct 1997 12:15:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA12637 for ; Fri, 24 Oct 1997 12:15:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA06570; Fri, 24 Oct 1997 12:15:04 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 12:15:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Kwoody cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to upgrade 2.2.5-R from 2.2.2-R? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 23 Oct 1997, Kwoody wrote: > I was thinking about upgradeing but what if you dont have the src > installed? Would you ahve to re-install from scratch? Though I would > lke to recompile a new kernal as Ive never done it before. You should really have the kernel source installed. You don't need the entire thing, but the src/ssys dist is key for configuring your system optimally. It's not that big, and is worth it's weight in gold. If you really don't want to, you can copy /kernel.GENERIC over /kernel. Note that you'll need to chflags nouchg before you'll be able to copy over /kernel. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major