From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 15 14:15:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from neodymium.btinternet.com (neodymium.btinternet.com [194.73.73.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2604E37C1CA for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 14:15:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org) Received: from [213.1.163.125] (helo=parish.my.domain) by neodymium.btinternet.com with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #1) id 12VM4G-0000oe-00; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 22:15:04 +0000 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA01289; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 22:15:10 GMT (envelope-from mark) Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 22:15:09 +0000 From: Mark Ovens To: J McKitrick Cc: Joe Karthauser , Joe Karthauser , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.0 questions Message-ID: <20000315221509.K244@parish> References: <20000315174907.C3638@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20000315194743.F52322@florence.pavilion.net> <20000315195316.A5217@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20000315200915.G52322@florence.pavilion.net> <20000315201904.A5253@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20000315202416.B38482@genius.systems.pavilion.net> <20000315202923.D5433@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20000315203813.A36837@genius.systems.pavilion.net> <20000315220442.C6240@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000315220442.C6240@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>; from jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org on Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 10:04:42PM +0000 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 10:04:42PM +0000, J McKitrick wrote: > I just checked out the ftp site, and i can't seem to find the detailed > upgrade via src instructions. Where are they again? > Just after I answered this I saw this on -stable. It's a proposed update to UPDATING, which fixes a couple of problems: Let me know if the following doesn't work: To update from 3.x to 4.0 stable -------------------------------- cd /usr/src make buildworld cd sbin/mknod make install [*] reboot cd /usr/src make -DNOINFO installworld make installworld [*] You may need to switch from wd to ad ala 19991210 To build a kernel ----------------- Update config, genassym and go: cd src/usr.bin/genassym make depend all install cd ../../usr.sbin/config make depend all install cd ../../sys/i386/conf config YOUR_KERNEL_HERE cd ../../compile/YOUR_KERNEL_HERE make depend && make make install To rebuild disk /dev entries ---------------------------- MAKEDEV should be copied from src/etc/MAKEDEV to /dev before starting the following: For N in the list of disks MAKEDEV N # eg ad0 for M in the list of slices MAKEDEV NsMa # eg ad0s1a > jm > -- > --------------------------------------------- > Jonathon McKitrick / jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org > "Tears from the depth of some divine despair > rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes > in looking on the happy autumn fields > and thinking of the days that are no more" > --------------------------------------------- > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Microsoft: Where do you want to go today? Linux: Where do you want to go tomorrow? BSD: Are you guys coming, or what? -Poster at LinuxWorld 2000 ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message