Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 15:00:02 GMT From: Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@neomedia.it> To: Brandon Fosdick <bfoz@glue.umd.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: 3.x -> 4.0-STABLE upgrade instructions Message-ID: <20000316.15000200@bartequi.ottodomain.org> In-Reply-To: <38D03E64.3D17FC34@glue.umd.edu> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003151354390.1980-100000@dt051n0b.san.rr.com> <200003152159.OAA89926@harmony.village.org> <38D03E64.3D17FC34@glue.umd.edu>
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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< On 3/16/00, 2:52:36 AM, Brandon Fosdick <bfoz@glue.umd.edu> wrote regarding Re: HEADS UP: 3.x -> 4.0-STABLE upgrade instructions: > Warner Losh wrote: > > > > In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003151354390.1980-100000@dt051n0b.san.rr.com> Doug Barton writes: > > : You can find instructions at > > : http://freebsd.simplenet.com/make-upgrade.html. I am planning to update > > : that file for 3.4 -> 4.0 asap BTW. > > > > 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 > > <follow directions to build/install a kernel> > > <follow rebuild disk /dev entries above> [*] > > reboot > > <in single user> > > 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 > How to go about switching over from wd to ad needs to be explained a little > better. After doing the MAKEDEV routine I went and changed all the wd's in my > fstab to ad's. Boy was that a mistake. Now I have to find somthing I can boot > with that will let me mount the root partition read/write so that I can change > fstab back. On top of that my cdrom suddenly decided to non-bootable. Maybe I'm > just having a bad day... > -Brandon Dear Brandon Fosdick, the (almost complete) updating procedure lies before you [was: Nature ;-)]. I am afraid the difficulties do NOT consist in making the devices nodes and the related slice entries. The following questions arise spontaneously. Q0) Have you been reading the -CURRENT mailing list archives for a while? In particular, have you read the letters posted in the last few weeks ? Q1) Did you exactly do as described in the procedure ? That is, if your disk is ,say, wd0, did you make an ad0 device node ? Did you make the *slice* entries, in our example ad0s1a (which makes ados1a through ad0s1h), as indicated there ? Did you update your /etc/fstab accordingly ? Did you substitute ad* for wd* in all your configuration files ? Q2) Have you read the very recent letters on the updating procedure (as of yesterday and today) ? Q3) Have you appropriately used the -k (ie force) option when making installworld ? Mind you, I missed the "cleaning" issue (you should not use the clean target in genassym etc. when making your first 4.0 kernel.) However, I succeeded in upgrading (though not all components were actually built). I did not care. Rather, I made the world again and checked my install logs (and they looked ok): now my 4.0-CURRENT (or should I say 4-STABLE ;-) seems to work like charm. At least, so far ... Good luck Salvo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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