From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 19 17:14:31 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 46DFE37B401 for ; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 17:14:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (bgm-24-94-58-56.stny.rr.com [24.94.58.56]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B517543ED8 for ; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 17:14:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from syborg@stny.rr.com) Received: by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix, from userid 507) id DBD0E4FC8A; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 19:54:13 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3C9E4A0E for ; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 19:54:13 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 19:54:13 -0500 (EST) From: John Bleichert X-X-Sender: syborg@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org Reply-To: John Bleichert To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.7 --> 5.0 via CVSup (never mind) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 /me read /usr/src/UPDATING. Sorry to clutter your INBOXes. On Sun, 19 Jan 2003, John Bleichert wrote: > Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 19:45:28 -0500 (EST) > From: John Bleichert > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: 4.7 --> 5.0 via CVSup > > Hello All > > Just for yucks I tried to upgrade a 4.7 box to 5.0 via cvsup/buildworld. > It's been, erm, less than successful. Is this possible? Is it documented? > I'm sure it is, but I can't find it. Can someone give me a pointer? The > Handbook still has the 4.7 build instructions. > > My (new) kernel is now appearing in /boot, seems to be much smaller, and > isn't seen at boot time. Figured I'd ask for help before hacking it into > submission :) > > Is the 'old' build method no longer valid? Pointers to docs appreciated. I > can grab the ISOs and do it if I need to, this is just a test box. > > Thanks - JB > > > # John Bleichert > # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message