From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 3 15:43:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-27-149-77.mmcable.com [24.27.149.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D365437B4D7 for ; Fri, 3 Nov 2000 15:43:54 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 42114 invoked by uid 100); 3 Nov 2000 23:43:49 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14851.19892.955016.226598@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 17:43:48 -0600 (CST) To: Chen Xu Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: install source from newer installation CD In-Reply-To: <95743552@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 Chen Xu types: > Dear All, > I have 4.0 running. And I got 4.1.1 installation CDROM. I wanted to > install the new source and then make world. Can anyone tell me what is > the best way to do this? Can I simply run /stand/sysinstall to install > the source or I should make install floppies from new CDROM and boot off > the floppies and then install only source from there? Ugh. There's not really a good way to do that. /stand/sysinstall might do the trick for you, but I'd be leary of running the 4.1.1 sysinstall on a 4.0 system, or letting the 4.0 sysinstall try and install the source to 4.1.1 (though that is the most likely path). However, there's no reason you can't do it "by hand", as it were. The following should be close: mount /cdrom mkdir /usr/newsrc cd /usr/newsrc for dist in /cdrom/src/*.aa do dname=`basename $dist .aa` cat /cdrom/src/$dname.?? | tar xpzf - done And it'll put the newq source tree in /usr/newsrc.