From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jan 26 16:46:48 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA28058 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 16:46:48 -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 QAA28053 for ; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 16:46:46 -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 TAA01962; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 19:46:42 -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 TAA18240; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 19:46:37 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <36AE61EC.EB9FA35B@kew.com> Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 19:46:36 -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: "Jordan K. Hubbard" CC: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: time to get out and push again (Re: Guinea pigs wanted.) References: <5788.917269094@zippy.cdrom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. > -- 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