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Date:      Wed, 14 Apr 1999 23:04:40 +0000
From:      Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>
To:        Philippe CASIDY <pcasidy@worldnet.fr>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Upgrading from 2.2.8R to 3.1R
Message-ID:  <19990414230440.A83072@rucus.ru.ac.za>
In-Reply-To: <199904142101.XAA06186@greatoak.home>; from Philippe CASIDY on Wed, Apr 14, 1999 at 11:01:03PM %2B0200
References:  <199904142101.XAA06186@greatoak.home>

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On Wed 1999-04-14 (23:01), Philippe CASIDY wrote:
> Is there a document which describe the changes between 3.1 and 2.2.8R?

The best reference for this (which (the reference) appears in the handbook)
is http://www.nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk/FreeBSD/make-world.html

> For instance, it looks like that a lot of changes occured in the
> /etc/rc* behavior! Now that the kernel supports loadable modules, how
> does it work? For example, if I want to load the pcic.ko module, what
> do I have to include/exclude in the kernel config file?

mergemaster (a port) is a great tool for upgrading /etc.

Neil
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Neil Blakey-Milner
nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za


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