From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jan 19 01:08:10 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA08715 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 19 Jan 1999 01:08:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles139.castles.com [208.214.165.139]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA08707 for ; Tue, 19 Jan 1999 01:08:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA02765; Tue, 19 Jan 1999 01:03:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199901190903.BAA02765@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Geoff Rehmet cc: "'current@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Building a new system to current In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 19 Jan 1999 10:57:39 +0200." <3D5EC7D2992BD211A95600A0C9CE047F017E2163@isjhbex01.is.co.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 01:03:59 -0800 From: Mike Smith Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id BAA08708 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Hi, >   > I'm in the process of setting up a new FreeBSD-current > box, starting with 3.0 Release, and moving to current. > One question I have, is whether to go to the ELF kernel > before I recompile the world with current source. >   >   > My plan is as follows: > - Load 3.0-RELEASE (done) > - archive and delete all a.out tools (done) > - update to the new bootblocks (done) > - move to ELF kernel Installing the Jan 12th snapshopt gives you all of this already, and no a.out cruft anywhere in sight. > Apart from the comments in src/UPDATING, > Peter Wemm's ELF day web page, and Robert > Nordiers page on the new bootblocks, can anyone > think of anything I should take into account? Nothing immediately obvious - you've taken a slightly longer path but I think you'll end up in the right place. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message