From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 29 18:50:29 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA12546 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 29 Jan 1997 18:50:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA12541 for ; Wed, 29 Jan 1997 18:50:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.4/8.6.12) with SMTP id SAA25590; Wed, 29 Jan 1997 18:49:48 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 18:49:48 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Rob Hartill cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.1.6 -> 2.2 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 29 Jan 1997, Rob Hartill wrote: > I looked for a better address, but didn't find one. > > I used cvsup to grab 2.2 using 'tag=RELENG_2_2' in order to try to move > from 2.1.6 to 2.2. This is doing it the hard way. You can just boot the 2.2 boot floppy and select the 'upgrade' option, which will preserve your system but upgrade everything. Instructions available on request. > Do you run 'make world' before building a new kernel or after ? After > sounds safer to me, but I hit errors in doing a "make depend" when trying > to create a GENERIC or custom kernel. The errors are for missing files: I don't think it matters. Did you rm -rf /usr/src/sys and made sure that your cvsupfile is pointing to the proper directory? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major