Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 19:46:36 -0500 From: Drew Derbyshire <software@kew.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: time to get out and push again (Re: Guinea pigs wanted.) Message-ID: <36AE61EC.EB9FA35B@kew.com> References: <5788.917269094@zippy.cdrom.com>
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squeak! squeak! (just what I asked for, more or less, a smaller elf upgrade.)
All I ask is they don't hunt down and kill my NT partitions, as much as they deserve it ... and since you can't promise that, I feel a backup coming up. :-)
"Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote:
> In the following shell archive you'll find a set of patches, to be
> applied relative to a 3.0S or 4.0C /usr/src tree, and a shell script
> which you should move into /usr/src/release/scripts. Once you've done
> that, you should be able to type "make upgrade" to update your 2.2.x
> or 3.0C fully to an ELF 3.0S or 4.0C system (depending on what's in
> your /usr/src).
>
> THESE PATCHES ARE ALPHA TEST QUALITY! They might just as soon destroy
> as upgrade your system and you should not do it on a production box
> (heh heh! :). Until I've gotten some feedback on and committed a
> final version of these changes to the tree, they should be used by
> bleeding-edge types only. These patches take you right up to and over
> the edge in one swoop, so be aware that if you set NOCONFIRM=yes
> you'll even get rebooted once the kernel and new boot blocks are
> installed. You Have Been Warned, etc.
>
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Drew Derbyshire UUPC/extended e-mail: software@kew.com
Telephone: 617-279-9812
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