Date: Thu, 09 Jul 1998 10:34:35 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Matthew Patton <patton@sysnet.net>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: building world Message-ID: <199807090104.KAA20643@cain.gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 08 Jul 1998 03:27:03 MST." <4648.899893623@time.cdrom.com>
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> Yep. Transitioning all the way from 2.2.6 to 3.0 using just /usr/src > is a fairly difficult proposition unless you're expert qualified with > berkeley make and the FreeBSD source tree in general. > > My recommendation, and the way I did this just a short time ago on > another box as a sort of demo, is to extract the bindist from a > 3.0-snap on top of your existing 2.2.x system and then make the world, > a new kernel, reboot. Worked for me. Hmm.. I did it a while ago from 2.2.5 to 3.0 but I think too many things have changed between -stable and -current now.. (ie source only no snap cd) Although I do have a box I could test going from 2.2.6 to 3.0 from :) Might be an interesting experiment =) --------------------------------------------------------------------- |Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software | |http://www.gsoft.com.au | |The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to| |choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum | --------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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