From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 20 11:40:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.enteract.com (mail.enteract.com [207.229.143.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B4FE37B8B8 for ; Mon, 20 Mar 2000 11:40:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nasby@shell-1.enteract.com) Received: from shell-1.enteract.com (nasby@shell-1.enteract.com [207.229.143.40]) by mail.enteract.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA33212 for ; Mon, 20 Mar 2000 13:40:24 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from nasby@shell-1.enteract.com) Received: (from nasby@localhost) by shell-1.enteract.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA36062 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 20 Mar 2000 13:40:24 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from nasby) Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 13:40:24 -0600 From: "Jim C. Nasby" To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: 3.4-STABLE to 4.0-STABLE Message-ID: <20000320134024.O30793@enteract.com> Reply-To: jim@nasby.net Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD Questions References: <200003200758.e2K7wxi42105@fedde.littleton.co.us> <3.0.3.32.20000320191603.007b5b00@odyssey.apana.org.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre3i In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.20000320191603.007b5b00@odyssey.apana.org.au> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE i386 X-Distributed: Join the Effort! http://www.distributed.net Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You don't want to follow these exact directions, specifically, you want to omit the 'clean' from the two make commands under 'To build a kernel'. If you don't, then installworld will bomb later on. Wasn't someone going to commit these changes to cvs? On Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 07:16:03PM +0800, Dean Hollister wrote: > x-no-archive: yes > > At 00:58 20/03/00 -0700, Chris Fedde wrote: > > >Hum... I'm a bit underwhelmed here. I've been having a heck of a time > >finding this message. > > [snip] > > I eventually found what I needed, by going into /usr/src/UPDATING. > > At the very end of this file, you will find the following under "COMMON > ITEMS:" > > COMMON ITEMS: > > To build a kernel > ----------------- > Update config, genassym and go: > cd src/usr.bin/genassym > make depend all install clean > cd ../../usr.sbin/config > make depend all install clean > cd ../../sys/i386/conf > config YOUR_KERNEL_HERE > cd ../../compile/YOUR_KERNEL_HERE > make depend && make > make install > > To rebuild disk /dev entries > ---------------------------- > > MAKEDEV should be copied from src/etc/MAKEDEV to /dev before > starting the following: > > For N in the list of disks > MAKEDEV N # eg ad0 > for M in the list of slices > MAKEDEV NsMa # eg ad0s1a > > > To rebuild everything > --------------------- > make world > > Except when it doesn't work. > > To update from 3.x to 4.0 stable > -------------------------------- > cd /usr/src > make buildworld > cd sbin/mknod > make install > > [*] > reboot > > cd /usr/src > make -DNOINFO installworld > make installworld > > [*] You may need to switch from wd to ad ala 19991210 > > Apologies if posting this here offends, however, I think this will answer > your question. It has certainly given me something to work with. :-) > > Regards, > > d. > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Jim C. Nasby (aka Decibel!) /^\ jim@nasby.net /___\ Freelance lighting designer and database developer / | \ Member: Triangle Fraternity, Sports Car Club of America /___|___\ Give your computer some brain-candy! www.distributed.net Team #1828 Get paid to surf!! http://www.enteract.com/~nasby/alladvantage.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message