From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Nov 29 0:44:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (whale.sunbay.crimea.ua [212.110.138.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4624637B417 for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 00:44:23 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ru@localhost) by whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (8.11.6/8.11.2) id fAT8i8O87766; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 10:44:08 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from ru) Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 10:44:08 +0200 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: Doug Silver Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Confirming 3.4 -> 4.4-STABLE procedure Message-ID: <20011129104408.E77679@sunbay.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 06:45:58PM -0800, Doug Silver wrote: > Hi All - > > I have a nfs server machine with 4.4-STABLE that I've used to upgrade > several other 4.2/4.3 machines. I have one straggler running 3.4 -- if I > nfs mount /usr/src & /usr/obj and make installworld, will that work? > > Will I just need to do the following steps, assuming source & kernel have > already been built on the server: > > make installkernel KERNCONF= > reboot (in single user) [1] > make installworld > mergemaster [2] > reboot > > (Should I install the GENERIC kernel first?) > > I don't need to do a buildworld since the sources are already built, > right? > > Just checking the shotgun before I point it at my foot ;) > I'd suggest that you first test this with DESTDIR=/foo/bar if you have enough disk space. And let us know then how it get. :-) Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Oracle Developer/DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message