From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jan 20 10:15:11 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D5AA37B401 for ; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 10:15:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from frmug.org (frmug-gw.frmug.org [193.56.58.252]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B56943ED8 for ; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 10:15:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from olive@oban.frmug.org) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by frmug.org (8.11.3/8.11.3/frmug-2.7/nospam) with UUCP id h0KIF5445785 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 19:15:05 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olive@oban.frmug.org) Received: by weirdos.oban.frmug.org (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 1A5438C0D; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 19:11:37 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 19:11:36 +0100 From: Olivier Tharan To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: upgrading from STABLE to 5.0 Message-ID: <20030120181136.GU54730@weirdos.oban.frmug.org> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <1043080805.29319.14.camel@x74-47.forestry.umn.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1043080805.29319.14.camel@x74-47.forestry.umn.edu> X-Attribution: Olive 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 * Kirk R. Wythers (20030120 10:40): > should 'YOUR_KERNEL_HERE' be just the name of my kernel (in my case > LORAXKERNEL) or the compete path to that kernel (from uname -a: > /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/LORAXKERNEL)? It is juste the name of your kernel: LORAXKERNEL. > 2) is point [8] 'In order to have a kernel that can run the 4.x binaries > needed to do an installworld, you must include the COMPAT_FREEBSD4 > option in your kernel. Failure to do so may leave you with a system > that is hard to boot to recover.' only in reference to those who track > CURRENT? I am a little unclear as to the distinction between STABLE and > CURRRENT with this release... You have to do this as well, because you are upgrading from RELENG_4 to RELENG_5; the binaries and libraries change. -- olive To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message