From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 13 21:34:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au (Ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.44.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A51914D8D for ; Tue, 13 Jul 1999 21:34:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from glewis@ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au) Received: (from glewis@localhost) by ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA53073; Wed, 14 Jul 1999 14:02:04 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from glewis) From: Greg Lewis Message-Id: <199907140432.OAA53073@ares.maths.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: 3.0-RELEASE -> 3.2-RELEASE In-Reply-To: <12c701becd6f$eeee2140$3102fbd1@siscom.net> from "Robert J. Adams" at "Jul 13, 1999 04:40:22 pm" To: "Robert J. Adams" Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 14:02:03 +0930 (CST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL56 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Hello all, > > I have a production box running 3.0 .. looking to bump it up to 3.2 .. any > "gotchas" on the aout->elf (didn't that happen between 3.0 and 3.2?) .. > thanks in advance. > > -j Well, it sort of happened ;). 3.0 did elf executables but still had an a.out kernel. 3.2 has an elf kernel as well. I did this from the upgrade option on the 3.2 cdroms and had no problems. If you're doing it from source code you'll need to install new boot blocks to boot the elf kernel. This is explained (maybe in /usr/src/UPDATING?). -- Greg Lewis glewis@trc.adelaide.edu.au Computing Officer +61 8 8303 5083 Teletraffic Research Centre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message