From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 15 22:44:52 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B09A016A4CE for ; Mon, 15 Dec 2003 22:44:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from tequila.4you.lt (tequila.4you.lt [212.122.68.216]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D37CD43D1F for ; Mon, 15 Dec 2003 22:44:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hugle@vkt.lt) Received: (qmail 21843 invoked by uid 0); 16 Dec 2003 06:41:36 -0000 Received: from hugle@vkt.lt by tequila by uid 82 with qmail-scanner-1.20rc1 (. Clear:RC:1:. Processed in 0.012055 secs); 16 Dec 2003 06:41:36 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hugl3) (213.252.192.162) by tequila.4you.lt with SMTP; 16 Dec 2003 06:41:36 -0000 Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 08:44:08 -0800 From: hugle X-Mailer: The Bat! (v2.01) X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <154236121675.20031216084408@vkt.lt> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <001801c3c36f$7846adf0$6401a8c0@Nomad> References: <200312161141.32743.pvandenbergen@swin.edu.au> <001801c3c36f$7846adf0$6401a8c0@Nomad> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Windows-1251 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re[2]: howto upgrade 4.8 to 4.9 without cdrom or floppy? ERROR X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: hugle List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 06:44:52 -0000 MS> There's actually a very simple process to use to upgrade, providing you MS> have a broadband connection: MS> 1) cvsup your sources to the newer sources. For more information read MS> about cvsup or checkout the handbook! MS> 2) once you have new sources, cd to /usr/src and type make world; this MS> could take an hour or more MS> 3) if this completes OK, cd to /usr/src/sys/i386/conf (on 386-based MS> processor systems) and type: MS> # config GENERIC (or whatever your kernel config file is) MS> 4) type: MS> # cd ../../compile/GENERIC (or name of kernel config file) MS> # make; make depend; make install MS> 5) if this completes OK, type: MS> # shutdown -r now MS> 6) once rebooted, login, and check uname -a. You will see stats for a MS> 4.9-x kernel! at step 4, you should do: make depend && make && make install