From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 10 9:45:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.wa.home.com (ha1.rdc1.wa.home.com [24.0.2.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C33F37B502 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2000 09:45:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from c157775-a.frndl1.wa.home.com ([24.7.140.89]) by mail.rdc1.wa.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20001010164545.DOMU15393.mail.rdc1.wa.home.com@c157775-a.frndl1.wa.home.com> for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2000 09:45:45 -0700 Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 09:47:20 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) From: TJ Olney To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: up from 3.51 to 4.1.1 -- ide devices Message-ID: X-X-Sender: market@[140.160.80.17] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG To upgrade from 3.51 to 4.1.1 Is it possible to simply upgrade the binaries without upgrading from source and somehow get the new ide devices and the fstab set properly? If I MUST rebuild from source, I thank you, Wash, for this reference: > www.mostgraveconcern.com/freebsd as it has some pieces that were missing from a very similar recipe that I tried before. Unfortunately, there are still some baffling sections in it: eg:: Compare your configuration carefully with /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC and /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/LINT, to make certain that you don't miss any devices that have changed. I have yet to figure out what this means for my system and haven't yet been able to understand what the effect of including or not including lines in the kernel configuration file are supposed to be. In fact, I'm not even sure what my "kernel configuration file" should be called or where it should be before I build my new kernel. I've been using FreeBSD for 4 years now, isn't it apalling how ignorant one can be and still have it work? With thanks to: On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > * TJ Olney [20001010 04:39]: > =>The handbook says this: > => > => Q: How do I upgrade from 3.X -> 4.X? > > Pls refer to a very good account of it given at > www.mostgraveconcern.com/freebsd > > It is much better than explained in the hbook > > -Wash To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message