From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 23 6:14: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx2.x-treme.gr (mx2.x-treme.gr [212.120.192.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A5B514C57 for ; Sun, 23 Jan 2000 06:13:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keramida@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from hades.hell.gr (pat9.x-treme.gr [212.120.197.201]) by mx2.x-treme.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3/IPNG-ADV-ANTISPAM-0.1) with ESMTP id QAA09939 for ; Sun, 23 Jan 2000 16:13:28 +0200 Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA32258 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 23 Jan 2000 16:13:31 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2000 16:13:21 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Installing 4.0-current from 3.4-stable. Message-ID: <20000123161321.A31996@hades.hell.gr> Reply-To: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre3i X-PGP-Fingerprint: 62 45 D1 C9 26 F9 95 06 D6 21 2A C8 8C 16 C0 8E X-Phone-Number: +30-94-6203692, +30-93-2886457 X-Address: Theodorou Kirinaiou 61, 26334 Patra, Greece Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>> The short question is: What is the canonical way of moving from 3.4-STABLE to 4.0-CURRENT? >>> The longer story for anyone interested to know why I'm asking is: I tried to install 4.0-CURRENT on top of my 3.4-STABLE. What I did was: - cvsup the sources of 4.0-CURRENT. to my regret I had not saved the sources of 3.4-STABLE, and I'll probably need another cvsup (of 3.4-stable this time) tonight. - changed to single user mode - change into /usr/src/sys/i386/conf and try to compile the new kernel, after I copied GENERIC to LOCAL and edited it. This failed because my (old) /usr/sbin/config does not recognize the format of the kernel config file. It barfs at some options because it thinks they should have double quotes. - after that I changed into /usr/src and tried to 'make buildworld' followed by an installworld. Silly as I am, I didn't use make buildworld && make installworld but in my haste, I typed make buildworld ; make installworld This morning I found my machine writing messages into syslog about sh(1) dumping core, again and again. This was probably crond's foul attempts to run commands with the new sh. Now I'm stuck with a partially upgraded system. I'm thinking of re-installing the base system tonight, but since I'm determined to move to -current, I'll probably keep a copy of my /usr/src from -current in some other partition ;) -- Giorgos Keramidas, < keramida @ ceid . upatras . gr > "Don't let your schooling interfere with your education." [Mark Twain] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message