From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 5 7:54:56 2001 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 5 07:54:54 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 975AC37B402 for ; Fri, 5 Jan 2001 07:54:53 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 68761 invoked by uid 100); 5 Jan 2001 15:54:52 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14933.61004.807183.569468@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 09:54:52 -0600 (CST) To: fpassera@freesurf.fr Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: An upgrade from FreeBSD-4.0-RELEASE to FreeBSD-4.2-RELEASE In-Reply-To: <78999987@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" 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\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG fpassera@freesurf.fr types: > Step 7) Update /etc (but actually I check from the /) > This is longest and hardest manual task I encountered during the upgrade. Use mergemaster. It automates everything but the actual merging, and makes this a relatively simple task, though still long to go from -RELEASE to -RELEASE. > Step 9) Compile and install new kernel > You must recompile your kernel before the reboot (see Handbook). > ... > That is very frustrating. From the newsgroup, I found 2 answers : Try "cd /usr/src; make buildkernel KERNEL=MYKERNEL" to build a new kernel after you've done "make buildworld". Buildkernel builds the kernel using the things built by buildworld. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ 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