From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 7 18:11:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from xena.gsicomp.on.ca (cr677933-a.ktchnr1.on.wave.home.com [24.43.230.149]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27FC937B401 for ; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 18:11:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (matt@localhost) by xena.gsicomp.on.ca (8.11.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f1829HK42110; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 21:09:17 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from matt@xena.gsicomp.on.ca) Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 21:09:17 -0500 (EST) From: Matthew Emmerton To: Matthew Koivisto Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: RE: Multiple kernels In-Reply-To: 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 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= 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message