From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 5 17:35:20 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 935C037B401 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 17:35:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from mired.org (ip68-97-54-220.ok.ok.cox.net [68.97.54.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 711BF43FB1 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 17:35:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm-dated-1047346514.dfa45e@mired.org) Received: (qmail 53432 invoked from network); 6 Mar 2003 01:35:14 -0000 Received: from localhost.mired.org (HELO guru.mired.org) (127.0.0.1) by localhost.mired.org with SMTP; 6 Mar 2003 01:35:14 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15974.42449.30768.248609@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 19:35:13 -0600 To: IAccounts Cc: freebsd Subject: Re: 4.3 -> RELENG_4 In-Reply-To: <20030305160641.U7942-100000@diana.northnetworks.ca> References: <20030305130116.Y51291-100000@diana.northnetworks.ca> <20030305160641.U7942-100000@diana.northnetworks.ca> X-Mailer: VM 7.07 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`; h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: Mike Meyer X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.70 (Pensive) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In <20030305160641.U7942-100000@diana.northnetworks.ca>, IAccounts typed: > > > Basically: > > > Update your source with cvsup > > > read /usr/src/UPDATING and follow any instructions required (I believe > > > you'll need to manually create the relatively new sendmail users) > > > Reveiw you kernel config file to see if any options have changed since > > > 4.3 > > > make buildkernel > > > make installkernel > > > reboot >>> if the reboot doesn't go well, boot kernel.old and copy it to > > > /kernel to get back to 4.3 > > > make buildworld > > > make installworld > > Ok, I have cvsup'ped successfully, upon buildkernel I get: > > "Error: version of config does not match kernel! > config version = 400018, version required = 400019 > > I understand that I am doing oposite of what the handbook says by > installing a new kernel first, but is there a way to get around the out of > date config problem so I can proceed in this 'backwards' approach? Not that I know of, and you've just started to uncover problems with doing things backwards. You really need to do the buildworld first. You can - in fact, should - leave the installworld until after the new kernel is booted. http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message