From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Aug 10 12:47:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83A1414EE5 for ; Tue, 10 Aug 1999 12:47:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA78465; Tue, 10 Aug 1999 12:47:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 12:47:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Doug Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [Fwd: Please review: New 'make upgrade' web page] In-Reply-To: <37AFBB97.8C6001F2@gorean.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, Doug wrote: > Howdy, :) > > Making good on a promise I made quite a while back I've put up a web page > with hopefully comprehensive instructions on going from 2.2.8 to 3.x via > 'make upgrade.' This page is aimed at a less experienced user and gives a > step by step list of procedures to follow to help ensure maximum > possibilities of success and convenience. > > I would appreciate it very much if some of y'all would take a few minutes > and read through the page with an eye toward offering constructive > criticism. I have now done two 'make upgrade's following these instructions > and both have been successful. I cobbled together the information from > various posts to the lists over the last year and my experience doing the > two upgrades. Some of the > recommendations may seem overly paranoid, but please keep the target > audience in mind. The last time I did this, it did three 'make worlds': 1 to bring you up to 2.2-STABLE, one to get bootstrap tools to build ELF, and the third to build everything -current in ELF, so when you were done you were fully up to date. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message