From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Feb 19 10:11:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F1E737BC84 for ; Sat, 19 Feb 2000 10:11:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA28849; Sat, 19 Feb 2000 10:37:45 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 10:37:45 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: "O. Hartmann" Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FBSD 4.0 Upgrade Problems Message-ID: <20000219103744.P21720@fw.wintelcom.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from ohartman@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de on Sat, Feb 19, 2000 at 01:17:11PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * O. Hartmann [000219 04:47] wrote: > Now I did all things recommended for upgrading ... on my "old 3.4" > system, I catched all the new sources via cvs. Then I compiled and installed > config and genassym manually ... rewrtote the kernel configuration definitions, > compiled a kernel and after some problems I got a new kernel ... but not the > suitable devices in /dev/ (missing /dev/drum etc.). Well, thought this is going > away by make world ... but - shit! Compiler breaks due the lack of a special > option. I guess it's a new egcs option but the compiler I use is still the > one from the original 3.4-STABLE distribution (cvsupded last night before > upgading). Can anybody help? I think it would be nice if anyone of the GURUS > out of the core team post a file called UPGRADE-STEPS or similar in which they > explain rudimentary how to do when upgrading from 3.4-STABLE system up to 4.0. Are there omissions in /usr/src/UPDATING that you would advise updating? -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message