From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jan 26 16:42:29 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA27483 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 16:42:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from kendra.ne.mediaone.net (kendra.ne.mediaone.net [24.128.94.182]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA27478 for ; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 16:42:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from software@kew.com) Received: from sonata.hh.kew.com (root@sonata-dmz.hh.kew.com [192.168.205.1]) by kendra.ne.mediaone.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id TAA01949; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 19:42:19 -0500 (EST) Received: from kew.com (minerva.hh.kew.com [192.168.203.144]) by sonata.hh.kew.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id TAA18231; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 19:42:13 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <36AE60E4.7F507E38@kew.com> Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 19:42:12 -0500 From: Drew Derbyshire Organization: Kendra Electronic Wonderworks, Stoneham, MA 02180 (http://www.kew.com) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tom CC: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.0s --> 3.0s and http://www.freebsd.org/ down References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Tom wrote: > On Sun, 24 Jan 1999, Drew Derbyshire wrote: > > > The web site is down, making the retrieval of the web page referenced by the > > aout-to-elf install procedure impossible. Two things: > > > > 1. Can someone who already downloaded the page mail it to me? > > 2. I submit that if this information is critical to the upgrade, it should > > be included in the directory with the generic upgrade kernel (or other > > good place) on the local machine. Assuming the installer has a working > > web browser is a bit generous at time like this. > > The page is back up. > > The information is contained in /usr/src already (the targets are > described in great detail in the Makefile). > I have to disagree here -- I READ the base /usr/src makefile and it didn't tell me that I could safely install and reboot having done the aout-to-build followed by aout-to-elf-install. Rather the kernel install barfed warning me to go read the page, at which point I didn't know if the full rebuild had handled the problem for me. I don't know what's on the page, but instructions for getting boot blocks updated (or notification it was done) needs to be in the build itself. -ahd- -- Drew Derbyshire UUPC/extended e-mail: software@kew.com Telephone: 617-279-9812 I intend to live forever. So far, so good. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message