From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 9 13:25: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from relay.ucb.crimea.ua (UCB-Async4-CRISCO.CRIS.NET [212.110.129.130]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB99541D2; Wed, 9 Feb 2000 13:23:54 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ru@localhost) by relay.ucb.crimea.ua (8.9.3/8.9.3/UCB) id XAA68536; Wed, 9 Feb 2000 23:22:23 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from ru) Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 23:22:23 +0200 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Upgrading to 4.0 Message-ID: <20000209232223.A66918@relay.ucb.crimea.ua> Mail-Followup-To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group , current@FreeBSD.org References: <200002091950.LAA00645@passer.osg.gov.bc.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <200002091950.LAA00645@passer.osg.gov.bc.ca>; from Cy Schubert on Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 11:49:30AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [Redirected to -current] On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 11:49:30AM -0800, Cy Schubert wrote: > Can FreeBSD be upgraded from 3.4-stable to 4.0-current from source. > When I installed -current on my testbed I got a number of sig 12's > (SIGSYS), e.g. fix one, reiterate, fix the next one, etc., that I > finally gave up and installed 4.0-current from snapshot. > > The reason for asking is that I'm installing a console server in > Vancouver, a 30 minute flight by helijet from Victoria. My options are > to install -stable and subsequently install 4.1 from source, negating > the requirement to travel to Vancouver to perform the installation, or > install from CDROM or FTP requiring console access. > > Any thoughts? > Without providing any in-depth details: 0. `uname -r' returns 3.x 1. make buildworld 2. make buildkernel 3. make installkernel 4. reboot with new kernel in signle-user mode 5. make -DNOINFO installworld 6. make buildkernel installkernel (again) 7. make installworld (again, without -DNOINFO) -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA of the ru@ucb.crimea.ua United Commercial Bank, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.247.647 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message