From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 9 15:19:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B82DC15416 for ; Wed, 9 Jun 1999 15:19:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA06242; Wed, 9 Jun 1999 15:19:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 15:19:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: "Mark L. Holloway" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Preserve kernal settings? In-Reply-To: <375cd345.197.0@flashmail.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Mark L. Holloway wrote: > I just did a binary upgrade (/stand/sysinstall -> upgrade) from 3.2 to 3.2. Where did you read to do this? This is *WRONG*. I want to go kill it. Now. You *MUST* use the boot floppies! > Everything went fine but when it was all finished I had to go to my root directory, > "cp kernal.GENERIC kernal" so the system could reboot successfully, but now > it looks like I need to re-do my kernal options again. For example, if I have > IPFILTER, bpf, or any options enable do I need to redo them again after an upgrade? > There must be a better method! You have to build a new kernel either way. Save your kernel config then rm -rf /usr/src/sys, then install the kernel source in the installer. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message