From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jun 26 21:39:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from marble.fbcc.com (ns2.fbcc.com [216.54.252.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9508437BE20 for ; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 21:39:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from king@sstar.com) Received: (qmail 4220 invoked from network); 27 Jun 2000 04:41:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO bluto.jimking.net) (216.54.255.8) by ns2.fbcc.com with SMTP; 27 Jun 2000 04:41:39 -0000 Received: from marble (marble.lgc.com [134.132.228.8]) by bluto.jimking.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id XAA72270; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 23:39:26 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from king@sstar.com) Message-ID: <009f01bfdff1$aeee7a00$08e48486@marble> From: "Jim King" To: "Francisco Reyes" Cc: References: <200006270426.AAA32396@sanson.reyes.somos.net> Subject: Re: Kernel problem building from 3.4 stable to 4.X stable Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 23:39:26 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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