From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 28 13:47:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mgci.com (box1.mpowercom.net [208.57.0.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 70F7537B71B for ; Wed, 28 Feb 2001 13:47:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chrissmith@mgci.com) Received: (qmail 31402 invoked from network); 28 Feb 2001 21:47:34 -0000 Received: from las-dsl113-cust059.mpowercom.net (HELO chris) (208.57.113.59) by box1.mpowercom.net with SMTP; 28 Feb 2001 21:47:34 -0000 Message-ID: <006d01c0a1d0$0f2c39c0$0c00a8c0@amgroupadmin.com> From: "Chris Smith" To: "Jonathan Chen" Cc: "Freebsd Questions" References: <200102282108.NAA45629@akira.lanfear.com> <20010301103622.A71041@itouchnz.itouch> Subject: Re: Upgrading from 4.1 to 4.2 Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 13:47:33 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 Disposition-Notification-To: "Chris Smith" X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I think I can add something here... From: "Jonathan Chen" > make buildworld (could take all day depending on the speed of your CPU) > make buildkernel KERNEL=YOURKERNEL > make installkernel KERNEL=YOURKERNEL Reboot into single mode to test new kernel here. If it looks ok, then... # mount -a # cd /usr/src ...to mount filesystems and go to src, then do the following: > make installworld > mergemaster Watch yourself with mergemaster, mainly, configuration scripts you have modified yourself, e.g. /etc/rc.conf and /etc/groups. If you are *sure* you haven't modified a file, then go ahead and tell mergemaster to install it, otherwise leave it for later. > reboot Upon reboot, watch your startup closely and scrollback if need be to make sure there are no errors or any other strange messages. _________________________________________________________________________ Chris Smith American Group Administrators IT Department First National Administrators To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message