From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 4 15:33:35 2003 Return-Path: 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 6C92C16A4B3 for ; Sat, 4 Oct 2003 15:33:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from alpha.nimblehost.net (216.93.166.51 [216.93.166.51]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8124B43FA3 for ; Sat, 4 Oct 2003 15:33:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from colk@ixswr.org) Received: (qmail 58282 invoked from network); 4 Oct 2003 22:33:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ixswr.org) (65.35.222.127) by alpha.nimblehost.net with SMTP; 4 Oct 2003 22:33:33 -0000 Message-ID: <3F7F4AC9.8030701@ixswr.org> Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2003 18:33:45 -0400 From: Kristen Doyle User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030901 Thunderbird/0.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Enigmail-Version: 0.81.6.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: re: upgrading 4.0 to stable X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2003 22:33:35 -0000 I have done one from 4.5 to stable the easiet way is to use screen if you dont have a stable connection in this order (make sure nothing else is running ie shutdown services except sshd ) and append the KERNCONF=blah make buildworld make buildkernel make installworld make installkernel mergemaster -p reboot cross your fingers and hope:) Ive had it fail only once