From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 15 18:46:06 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 B3F8616A4E0 for ; Tue, 15 Aug 2006 18:46:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from zope@2012.vi) Received: from efit.xs4all.nl (efit.xs4all.nl [82.92.236.145]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DB9843D62 for ; Tue, 15 Aug 2006 18:46:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from zope@2012.vi) Received: from [192.168.0.6] (dpc67143135132.direcpc.com [67.143.135.132]) by efit.xs4all.nl (Weasel v1.73) for ; 15 Aug 2006 20:42:02 Message-ID: <44E21602.4070303@2012.vi> Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 14:44:18 -0400 From: beno User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (Windows/20060719) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Rebuilding, Got Questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 18:46:06 -0000 Hi; The box I've taken over has BSD 5.3 so I need to upgrade. This is a big jump and the console is half a world away so I have some questions: * Can I do all of the steps of the installation without reverting to single user mode? * Where do I find the src to download?? All I find are ISOs. Is there no *.tgz file anywhere? * I'm upgrading from 5.3 to 6.1. Will I have to run "mergemaster -p" before running "buildworld"? Do I need anything more in /etc/make.conf than the following? CFLAGS= -O -pipe NO_BLUETOOTH= true # I have no need of this NO_SENDMAIL= true # I use qmail The current /etc/make.conf has this and I don't understand why: # -- use.perl generated deltas -- # # Created: Wed Dec 21 21:11:27 2005 # Setting to use base perl from ports: PERL_VER=5.8.5 PERL_VERSION=5.8.5 PERL_ARCH=mach NOPERL=yo NO_PERL=yo NO_PERL_WRAPPER=yo Should I leave the above? Merge the two? Throw out the above and just use what I've written (above that)? Will that screw up the installation? Will that screw up perl? Here is my procedure. Look good? cd /usr/src make -j4 buildworld // single CPU system make buildkernel make installkernel reboot make installworld mergemaster -p reboot TIA, beno