From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Nov 29 6: 8:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4640337B420 for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 06:08:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by fledge.watson.org (8.11.6/8.11.5) with SMTP id fATE8GO61292; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 09:08:16 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from doug@safeport.com) X-Authentication-Warning: fledge.watson.org: doug owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 09:08:15 -0500 (EST) From: doug X-Sender: doug@fledge.watson.org To: Doug Silver Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Confirming 3.4 -> 4.4-STABLE procedure In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 If you have access to archives of this list look for this topic. I seem to remember that a jump to an interim version was suggested. I can not remember if it was going to 3.5 or 4.[01]. The reason being that build procedure changed and this helped with the transition. On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, 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 ;) > > Thanks! > -- > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Doug Silver > Quantified Systems, Inc > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message