From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Sep 27 14:32:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from joefox.quist.ca (joefox.quist.ca [128.100.96.195]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9836C37B40B for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2001 14:32:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 1184 invoked by uid 1000); 27 Sep 2001 21:32:13 -0000 Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 17:31:51 -0401 From: "Russell P. Sutherland" To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Upgrading from the source Message-ID: <20010927173151.B10009@quist.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Organization: Quist Consulting Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've attempting to update several FreeBSD 4.2 and 4.3 systems remotely to 4.4, by first cvsup'ing the current sources and then building the sources. I believe that the install should be done from the console in single user mode. (All based on the "make world" section of Chapter 19, The Cutting Edge from the FreeBSD Handbook) A few questions... 1. Does make buildworld also build the kernel or does one need to perform a make buildkernel as well 2. Do the make installworld, installkernel operations need to be done in single-user mode? I'm thinking of a lightly used system 3. Given a neo-phyte at the helm, is the pre-building from source method easier that the upgrade option with the FreeBSD 4.4 CD. -- Quist Consulting Email: russ@quist.ca 219 Donlea Drive Voice: +1.416.696.7600 Toronto ON M4G 2N1 Cell: +1.416.803.0080 CANADA WWW: http://www.quist.ca To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message