From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Aug 3 3: 2:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from alpha.pit.adelphia.net (alpha.pit.adelphia.net [24.48.44.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1158637B90D for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 03:02:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nturki@adelphia.net) Received: from b3s8t6 (pa-indiana1b-27.pit.adelphia.net [24.50.155.27]) by alpha.pit.adelphia.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) with SMTP id GAA19171; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 06:02:07 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <000501bffd32$3d7604c0$1b9b3218@pit.adelphia.net> From: "Nader Turki" To: Cc: References: <001101bffd1a$a12692e0$1b9b3218@pit.adelphia.net> <20000803005926.A12227@luna.osd.bsdi.com> Subject: Re: Upgrading from 4.1-R to 4.1-S Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 06:04:40 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG So the way it works is: - cvsup - cd /usr/src - make world - make buildkernel KERNEL=MYKERNEL - make installkernel KERNEL=MYKERNEL - reboot is that it? Thanks, Nader ----- Original Message ----- From: Jim Mock To: Nader Turki Cc: Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 3:59 AM Subject: Re: Upgrading from 4.1-R to 4.1-S > On Thu, 03 Aug 2000 at 03:15:40 -0400, Nader Turki wrote: > > Hi guys, > > I just installed fresh FreeBSD 4.1 and wanna upgrade to FreeBSD > > 4.1-STABLE. Anyway, I did that few times with 3.x and 4.0. I used to > > cvsup then just cd /usr/src; make world. > > then recompile my kernel: > > cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf > > /usr/sbin/config MYKERNEL > > cd ../../compile/MYKERNEL > > make depend; make; make install > > > > And It worked for me all the time, I was checking thew handbook and > > saw something new which is: > > # cd /usr/src > > # make buildkernel KERNEL=MYKERNEL > > # make installkernel KERNEL=MYKERNEL > > > > Do I have to use that way or the old way will work just fine. > > The new way is preferred. If you use the old way, chances are, it will > work fine (it has here), but there are no promises. YMMV. > > If you cvsup the source, you should get the changes added to the tree > tonight that install the kernel as /kernel instead of /MYKERNEL (see > /usr/src/UPDATING for more info on the procedure if you don't get the > latest changes). Otherwise, you can add the following line to your > kernel config file to get it to install as /kernel: > > makeoptions KERNEL=kernel > > > P.S. someone told me that cvs-crypto is a part of src-all now, is > > that true? > > Yes. > > > so i don't need to have cvs-crypto on my supfile anymore if i'm using > > scr-all ???? > > Correct. > > - jim > > -- > jim mock work: jim@osd.bsdi.com | jim@FreeBSD.org > http://soupnazi.org/~jim/ BSDi Open Source Div | http://bsdi.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message