From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 13 14:27: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mostgraveconcern.com (mostgraveconcern.com [216.82.145.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3241437BB84 for ; Sat, 13 May 2000 14:27:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@mostgraveconcern.com) Received: from danco (danco.mostgraveconcern.com [10.0.0.2]) by mostgraveconcern.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA29212; Sat, 13 May 2000 14:26:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@mostgraveconcern.com) Message-ID: <088101bfbd21$f66a5f40$0200000a@danco> Reply-To: "Dan O'Connor" From: "Dan O'Connor" To: "Doug Barton" Cc: Subject: Re: 5.0 already? Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 14:26:54 -0700 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 4.72.3155.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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