From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jun 7 08:18:17 1996 Return-Path: owner-stable Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA22263 for stable-outgoing; Fri, 7 Jun 1996 08:18:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palette.wcupa.edu (palette.wcupa.edu [144.26.17.241]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA22257 for ; Fri, 7 Jun 1996 08:18:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: by palette.wcupa.edu (5.65/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA24452; Fri, 7 Jun 1996 11:15:24 -0400 Received: by spectrum.wcupa.edu with Microsoft Mail id <31B86E84@spectrum.wcupa.edu>; Fri, 07 Jun 96 11:01:40 PDT From: "Schwenk, Peter" To: "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" Subject: RE: Installing FreeBSD-stable Date: Fri, 07 Jun 96 10:49:00 PDT Message-Id: <31B86E84@spectrum.wcupa.edu> Encoding: 37 TEXT X-Mailer: Microsoft Mail V3.0 Sender: owner-stable@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk What is meant by merging the /etc and /dev files? I'm beginning to tackle the -stable issues, and I'm not really sure what is meant by this. - Peter Schwenk, Academic Computing, West Chester University of PA - pschwenk@wcupa.edu ---------- From: Nate Williams[SMTP:nate@sri.MT.net] Sent: Friday, June 07, 1996 12:05 AM To: Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD-stable > I see source for FreeBSD-stable, but no binaries. So, stable is just > like current, except more stable and less current? ;-) Yep. > What I mean is, you don't have ready-made binary tarballs, and > ready-to-go installation tools? Nope. > Is it a simple matter to just build > stable sources on a 2.1.0-release system? Yep. You update your sources via sup or CTM and then do a 'make world'. If everything works like it's supposed to you have a system that's 95% of the way there. Then, build and install a -stable kernel and you're 98% of the way there. The remaining 2% is making sure your /etc and /dev files are merged, but this has to be done by hand right now. Nate