From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jul 8 18:05:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA26963 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 18:05:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA26958 for ; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 18:05:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@cain.gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id KAA20643; Thu, 9 Jul 1998 10:34:35 +0930 (CST) Message-Id: <199807090104.KAA20643@cain.gsoft.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Matthew Patton , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: building world In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 08 Jul 1998 03:27:03 MST." <4648.899893623@time.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 09 Jul 1998 10:34:35 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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