From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jun 6 23:23:11 1996 Return-Path: owner-stable Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA16517 for stable-outgoing; Thu, 6 Jun 1996 23:23:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (palmer.demon.co.uk [158.152.50.150]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA16510 for ; Thu, 6 Jun 1996 23:23:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by palmer.demon.co.uk (sendmail/PALMER-1) with ESMTP id GAA28958; Fri, 7 Jun 1996 06:39:19 +0100 (BST) To: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD-stable In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 06 Jun 1996 20:37:13 PDT." <199606070337.UAA07710@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> Date: Fri, 07 Jun 1996 06:39:17 +0100 Message-ID: <28956.834125957@palmer.demon.co.uk> Sender: owner-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" wrote in message ID <199606070337.UAA07710@MindBender.HeadCandy.com>: > Last question (really! :-): so, as I asked before, will it be a simple > task to do a source compile "upgrade" from 2.1.0-release to stable? Just FYI, I had a FreeBSD box that was running 2.0-RELEASE, with munged binaries in a couple of places to allow me to run a 2.1-stable kernel on it. I downloaded the 2.1-stable source tree a month or two ago once I got more disk space. Made a new kernel, rebooted using it, then ran `make world' in /usr/src. Apart from 2 hiccups (which were easly fixed if you read the error and go look at what's happening) it worked fine. So (with a small bit of work) it's possible to bootstrap from 2.0R! Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info