From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 14 21: 5:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kestrel.prod.itd.earthlink.net (kestrel.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.121.155]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A65C37C47B; Wed, 14 Jun 2000 21:05:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@earthlink.net) Received: from pool0566.cvx20-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net (pool1123.cvx20-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net [209.179.254.103]) by kestrel.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3-EL_1_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA26610; Wed, 14 Jun 2000 21:05:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by pool0566.cvx20-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA01205; Wed, 14 Jun 2000 21:03:37 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 21:03:05 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Stephen Montgomery-Smith Cc: Chris Byrnes , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: upgrade 3.4 to 4.0 Message-ID: <20000614210305.B252@dialin-client.earthlink.net> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <394830F7.21F4C850@math.missouri.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <394830F7.21F4C850@math.missouri.edu>; from stephen@math.missouri.edu on Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 08:27:19PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 08:27:19PM -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > Chris Byrnes wrote: > > > > To update from 3.x to 4.0 stable > > -------------------------------- > > [3] > > cd /usr/src > > [2] > > make buildworld > > cd sbin/mknod > > make install > > cd ../../sys/modules > > make install > > > > [1] > > reboot > > > > cd /usr/src > > cd gnu/usr.bin/texinfo/install-info > > make install > > cd ../../../.. > > make installworld [5] > > mergemaster [4] > > reboot > > > > > > I hate to keep asking you questions, but like.. I cant login to the > > machine in single-user mode.. it's a co-located box.. is there a way to > > get around the things you have to do in single-user mode? > > > > I accidently didn't boot into single user mode at that time, and > I found the machine unusable. > > I don't remember why. It might have been that the passwords > did not work. But I think it might have been something else. Maybe if they were NIS passwords. I think the biggest potential problem is with the network setup. Commands like ipfw(8) will not be in sync with the kernel. There is also the problem that the /etc/rc* files are for 3.x rather than 4.0, but this should not be _too_ much of a problem. That said, IIRC, I did manage to do a 3.x to 4.0 upgrade remotely. I was very careful about how I did it, and I had just upgraded some other boxes so the procedure was fresh in my mind at the time. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message