From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 4 15:25:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA15067 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 4 May 1998 15:25:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA14905 for ; Mon, 4 May 1998 15:24:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA24250; Mon, 4 May 1998 15:24:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 4 May 1998 15:24:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Keith Woodworth cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make world In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 4 May 1998, Keith Woodworth wrote: > > For the purpose of learning how things work, I installed the entire 2.1.7 > dist from cd a while back, source incl. > > this is a stock 2.1.7 system. I installed it then sort of forgot about it > for a while as I didnt have time to really look at it again till this > weekend. I snagged cvs-bin-14.1.1 and installed it and config'd it to > get src-all and cvs-crypto. cvsup 15.4 was released the other day. You might want that rather than the crusy old 14.1. > Now as this is a stock 2.1.7 installed system ( i didnt even get ppp > working as I have a 2.1.7 system already working as a gateway and went > through that to get new src ) can I simply type make buildworld then if > that works make installworld? Or simple as the makefile has just make world? See http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/make-world/ for details. > If this is the case will I end up with a 2.2.6 system? Or would it be > easier just to boot with a 2.2.6 floppy and do an upgrade via sysinstall? I prefer this method -- it's generally faster and less painful. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message