Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 23:39:26 -0500 From: "Jim King" <king@sstar.com> To: "Francisco Reyes" <fran@reyes.somos.net> Cc: <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Kernel problem building from 3.4 stable to 4.X stable Message-ID: <009f01bfdff1$aeee7a00$08e48486@marble> References: <200006270426.AAA32396@sanson.reyes.somos.net>
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Francisco Reyes wrote: > On Mon, 26 Jun 2000 22:57:05 -0500, Joe Royce wrote: > > >When upgrading from 3.x to 4.0 stable you must rebuild config(8) and > >genassym(8) prior to rebuilding a new kernel. See below. > > Thanks much for your message. > the most detailed. > I have decided that I have tried long enough (currently getting > a core dump) and will save/data, install 4.X from scratch. > > Would someone please send-pr the current instructsions to go > from 3.4 to 4.X Stable. > > It can save people like myself a lot of time and frustration. They're in src/UPDATING. If you follow them carefully then upgrading from 3.4 to 4.0 works fine - I did two machines in the last two weeks. That being said, if I'd had local access to the machines I probably would have done a data backup and installed 4.0 from scratch, because it would have been a nice opportunity to tweak partition sizes, clean out old gunk, etc. Jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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