Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 14:26:54 -0700 From: "Dan O'Connor" <dan@mostgraveconcern.com> To: "Doug Barton" <DougB@gorean.org> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: 5.0 already? Message-ID: <088101bfbd21$f66a5f40$0200000a@danco>
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> Your problems were caused solely because you ignored the advice of many >capable and knowledgeable people to not attempt a source upgrade. There >are a lot of people for whom the best path is to back up their data, >wipe the disk and install the new system. There is nothing wrong with >that. As a side note, I want to say that I *like* the 3.4 -> 4.0 source upgrade procedure... My computer is one of the earlier Pentiums with the broken-IDE controller problem that the new ATA driver chokes on. With the new procedure of make buildworld / mknod make install / modules make install / kernel build & install, I was able to find this problem without destroying my ability to continue operating with a 3.4-STABLE kernel (since the world hadn't actually been installed yet...). All I had to do was change /etc/fstab entries back to 'wd*' instead of 'ad*'. I quickly mail-ordered a Promise Ultra33 controller card, installed it when it got here, and now my system is happily at 4.0-STABLE. Even with this (minor) glitch, this upgrade was far less painless than the 2.2.8 -> 3.0 one. If I'd had newer hardware, this upgrade would have been no more difficult than a typical 'make world'. --Dan -- Dan O'Connor On Matters of Most Grave Concern http://www.mostgraveconcern.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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