From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 28 10:20:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta6.snfc21.pbi.net (mta6.snfc21.pbi.net [206.13.28.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A40E737B54F for ; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 10:20:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gfish123@pacbell.net) Received: from uniqsite.com ([63.197.148.179]) by mta6.snfc21.pbi.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.2000.01.05.12.18.p9) with ESMTP id <0FWV00IUQJP9EB@mta6.snfc21.pbi.net> for questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 10:10:22 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 10:10:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Gorden Fischer Subject: Re: Upgrade from 3.4-RELEASE In-reply-to: <44d7l1riov.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net> X-Sender: gfish123@uniqsite.com To: Lowell Gilbert Cc: questions@freebsd.org 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 Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > gfish123@pacbell.net (Gorden Fischer) writes: > > > Lately I noticed there are some new devices added to the /dev of the > > 4.0-RELEASE. The 4.0 CD is sitting on my table top gathering dust. > > > > Now I am ready to upgrade to 4.0. What I used to do is to boot from > > the CD and follow the upgrade step from the menu. Would this update the > > device files as well, or should I cvsup it instead? > > It should update the devices just fine. > > If you've built any non-standard devices (e.g., sound), you might need > to rebuild those after the upgrade, but the updated system should be > able to do that with the MAKEDEV that the upgrade installs. > > - Lowell Gilbert > Just what I need to hear. Thank you. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message