From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 15 2:52:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from Mail6.nc.rr.com (fe6.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5584337B405 for ; Tue, 15 Jan 2002 02:52:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from there ([66.57.85.154]) by Mail6.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.687.68); Tue, 15 Jan 2002 05:52:31 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Brian T.Schellenberger To: "Kevin Oberman" Subject: Re: Newbie: 4.4-stable, how to? - And the CVSupIT bug. Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 05:52:05 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] Cc: "Rodrigo A B Freire" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20020114174953.D34A55D1A@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: <20020114174953.D34A55D1A@ptavv.es.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <0a5803152100f12FE6@Mail6.nc.rr.com> 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 On Monday 14 January 2002 12:49 pm, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > From: Brian T.Schellenberger > > Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 21:52:59 -0500 > > Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > > > On Sunday 13 January 2002 06:13 pm, Rodrigo A B Freire wrote: > > > Hi everyone, and thanks for replying! > > > > > > But... Well, CVSup, by itself isn't kinda complicated, but.. Umm.. > > > After cvsupping, is there anything else to do? > > > If just CVSup is enough to keep the machine up to date, GREAT! I've > > > got it! > > > > No, that's not it. See "the leading edge" in the handbook and > > /usr/src/UPDATING. But in a nutshell, > > > > cvsup > > cd /usr/src > > make buildworld KERNCONF=your-custom-kernel > > make kernel KERNCONF=your-custom-kernel > > reboot to single-user mode (boot -s ; fsck -u ; mount -a -t ufs ; > > swapon) cd /usr/src > > make installworld KERNCONF=your-custom-kernel > > mergemaster > > > > reboot. > > Close and probably functional, but I would suggest: > cvsup > cd /usr/src > make buildworld > make kernel KERNCONF=your-custom-kernel > reboot to single-user mode (boot -s ; fsck -p ; mount -a -t ufs) > cd /usr/src > make installworld > mergemaster > reboot. Stupid of me to to write to the single-user stuff from memory. In real life I open up my copy of the FreeBSD Handbook and look it up, which is the primary advice I gave above and the best advice always. > > The KERNCONF is only used to build the kernel, so it's not needed for > the other "make" lines. I don't see the '-u' option in the fsck man > page, but '-p' will do the trick. > > I also don't use "swapon" as the install process should not swap unless > your system has VERY limited memory. If it does, I'd suggest "swapon -a". > > R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer > Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) > Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) > E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 -- Brian T. Schellenberger . . . . . . . bts@wnt.sas.com (work) Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) http://www.babbleon.org -------> Free Dmitry Sklyarov! (let him go home) <----------- http://www.eff.org http://www.programming-freedom.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message