From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 7 15:51:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nyc-ny79-48.ix.netcom.com (nyc-ny79-48.ix.netcom.com [209.109.229.176]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 616DA14C3F for ; Sun, 7 Mar 1999 15:51:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from spork@startrekmail.com) Received: from localhost (spork@localhost) by nyc-ny79-48.ix.netcom.com (8.9.2/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA00491; Sun, 7 Mar 1999 18:48:16 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from spork@startrekmail.com) X-Authentication-Warning: nyc-ny79-48.ix.netcom.com: spork owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 7 Mar 1999 18:48:15 -0500 (EST) From: Spike X-Sender: spork@nyc-ny79-48.ix.netcom.com Reply-To: sporkl@ix.netcom.com To: Kerberus Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: best way to upgrade In-Reply-To: <36E2FF79.87B876B6@inetu.net> 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 Sun, 7 Mar 1999, Kerberus wrote: > Ok exactly what is the best way to upgrade from 2.2.8 to 3.1 , > should i do this by source or should i use the sysinstall method, what > problems if any, should i be aware of potentially runnning into, ie.. > boot block problems, bad make world, ports not compiling ??? ive seen > alot of traffic about 3.1 problems.... are these centralized due to the > build of 3.1 or are they varied dependent on the user/system upgraded I have no experience with the sysinstall method, but the make world method work perfectly well for me. 1. Make backups. 2. cvsup newest source- (RELENG_3 is the tag) 3. cd /usr/src && make aout-to-elf-buildworld && shutdown now will rebuild entire system to new version. This will take a lot of time, several hours on my PII 300/128M/UW SCSI machine. 4. Once you are in singleuser, cd /usr/src again and make aout-to-elf-installworld. Do not interrupt this process, or it may leave your system unbootable. 5. Install the new elf aware bootblocks- refer to www.freebsd.org/~rnordier/boot.txt for details. 6. Reboot the machine. You will now be running an elf system, and will have to do certain things like set your ldconfig -aout path and rebuild your ports. I set up all my ports to get rebuilt in sequence, with a simple shell script, which took a while put got everything done. Good luck. > > thanks in advance. > > K. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > -Spike Gronim sporkl@ix.netcom.com Finger gronimw@shell.stuy.edu for PGP public key. The majority only rules those who let them. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message