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Date:      Wed, 7 Feb 2001 21:09:17 -0500 (EST)
From:      Matthew Emmerton <matt@gsicomp.on.ca>
To:        Matthew Koivisto <mkoivist@nortelnetworks.com>
Cc:        "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: Multiple kernels
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102072106271.42056-100000@xena.gsicomp.on.ca>
In-Reply-To: <E1A4B2CC91EBD1118A510000F80836F803ECAB0D@zwdld002.ca.nortel.com>

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On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Matthew Koivisto wrote:

> Thnxs a lot, 
> Now I have another question :)
> There's not really a clear how-to out there on upgrading a freeBSD system (I
> didn't install 4.1, someone else did) I've seen warning about not buliding a
> new (ie 4.2) kernel from a system running 4.1. I don't really understand,
> how else are you supposed to build a 4.2 kernel? Or am I just dumb and not
> understanding this warning?

You need to upgrade your system to 4.2-RELEASE and then build a 4.2
kernel.

To upgrade your system to 4.2-R using source code:

1) use cvsup to grab the 4.2-R source (tag=RELENG_4_2_0_RELEASE)
2) cd /usr/src
3) make world
4) edit kernel configuration file
5) make buildkernel KERNEL=<insert kernel config name here>
6) make installkernel
7) manually upgrade the files in /etc or use mergemaster
8) reboot

You can find more detailed information about this process in the FreeBSD
handbook (http://www.freebsd.org/handbook).

--
Matt Emmerton



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