From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 19 11:14:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from host2.hostmatters.com (host2.hostmatters.com [209.239.36.156]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 695FC37B71F for ; Mon, 19 Mar 2001 11:14:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@cahostnet.com) Received: from nhqadmin17 (224host13.redcross.org [162.6.224.13]) by host2.hostmatters.com (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id f2JJEWr02835; Mon, 19 Mar 2001 14:14:32 -0500 Message-ID: <015501c0b0a9$6cc7d110$6102a00a@nhqadmin17> From: "Ben" To: "Christopher Farley" Cc: References: <002801c0b07c$25a90100$6102a00a@nhqadmin17> <20010319114848.A18981@northernbrewer.com> Subject: Re: CVSUP Suggestion Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 14:18:44 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Thanks for the suggestion. Yes I got lucky I guess, at least I think I did. No errors were reported. But know that I've done the intallworld, should I go back and do the buildkernel to synch up my kernel with my system? Or I'm I OK to leave things where it is now? The only thing left to do is to do mergemaster. Thanks, Ben - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Farley" To: "Ben" Cc: Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 12:48 PM Subject: Re: CVSUP Suggestion > Ben (ben@cahostnet.com) wrote: > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > I'm running 4.2-RELEASE and want to update. I haven't compiled > > my own kernel yet. However, I went and updated my sources and > > ports with cvsup and did a make buildworld. Part of the > > instructions asks you to do a buildkernel and install kernel as > > your update. I want to compile my own kernel but since I hadn't > > done it yet I skipped that section and went to the make > > installworld to update everything. I then compiled my kernel > > using the kernel compiled method and not the buildkernel way. Is > > this OK, did I mess something up doing it this way? Or should I > > have used the GENERIC kernel to buildkernel and then updated my > > kernel after up updates were don. Information on this will be > > appreciated. > > In the past year or so there have been three different published > ways to build your kernel, so it's understandable that there would > be confusion here. > > Building a new userland often requires building a new kernel. If > you are running FreeBSD 4.2 or later, here is the 'nutshell > version' of the steps: > > make buildworld > make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL > make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL > reboot (in single user) > make installworld > mergemaster > reboot > > To simply build a kernel without building world: > > make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL > make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL > reboot > > In your case, I would have compiled the GENERIC kernel during your > buildworld so you would have a kernel in sync with your userland. > If you didn't experience any serious problems during the build, > consider yourself lucky. > > I believe the above procedures are pretty safe, and they are all > detailed in the handbook. > > -- > Christopher Farley > www.northernbrewer.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 7.0.3 for non-commercial use iQA/AwUBOrZbjght7rD8NlhDEQIJsgCgynFvfUVSmYV/KCbnSDSlq9U30oAAn1qq 0tLgZoYODzXLGLOYBg3WwqPq =3jH9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message