From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jan 25 05:33:37 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA15139 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Mon, 25 Jan 1999 05:33:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from abc.123.org (123.org [194.172.236.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA15134 for ; Mon, 25 Jan 1999 05:33:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from k@abc.123.org) Received: (from k@localhost) by abc.123.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) id OAA11565; Mon, 25 Jan 1999 14:33:26 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from k) Message-ID: <19990125143325.D359@123.org> Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 14:33:25 +0100 From: Kai Voigt To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Guinea pigs wanted. References: <5788.917269094@zippy.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <5788.917269094@zippy.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 04:58:14AM -0800 Organization: 123.org Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > In the following shell archive you'll find a set of patches, to be > applied relative to a 3.0S or 4.0C /usr/src tree, and a shell script > which you should move into /usr/src/release/scripts. Once you've done > that, you should be able to type "make upgrade" to update your 2.2.x > or 3.0C fully to an ELF 3.0S or 4.0C system (depending on what's in > your /usr/src). I installed a 3.0R last year, sup'ed the tag=. sources and "make upgrade" is running now. I just wonder why it's building tons of aout stuff now, I thought 3.0R already was elf in userland and only the kernel needs to be build with a new booting environment. > THESE PATCHES ARE ALPHA TEST QUALITY! They might just as soon destroy > as upgrade your system and you should not do it on a production box > (heh heh! :). Until I've gotten some feedback on and committed a > final version of these changes to the tree, they should be used by > bleeding-edge types only. These patches take you right up to and over > the edge in one swoop, so be aware that if you set NOCONFIRM=yes > you'll even get rebooted once the kernel and new boot blocks are > installed. You Have Been Warned, etc. In a few hours (spare 100Mhz box), I will let you know how things turned out. Kai -- kai voigt hamburger chaussee 36 24113 kiel 0431-642677 http://k.123.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message