From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 15 14:48:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from itouch.co.nz (itouch.co.nz [203.99.66.188]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A4E337B406 for ; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 14:48:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jonc.itouch ([192.168.2.21]) by itouch.co.nz with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 15tFb3-00032h-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 16 Oct 2001 10:48:29 +1300 Received: (from jonc@localhost) by jonc.itouch (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f9FLmTp58806 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 16 Oct 2001 10:48:29 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 10:48:29 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading to 4.4 Message-ID: <20011016104829.B58711@jonc.itouch> References: <20011015154852.D4944@acadia.ne.mediaone.net> <20011015222132.B36840@drex.staff.izr.com> <20011015173327.E4944@acadia.ne.mediaone.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011015173327.E4944@acadia.ne.mediaone.net>; from leblanc+freebsd@acadia.ne.mediaone.net on Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 05:33:27PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 05:33:27PM -0400, Louis LeBlanc wrote: > Actually, you really should installworld before building the kernel. > I have never had trouble with this, and this follows the suggestions I > have seen on this list in the last 2 or 3 months. That is how I > upgraded from 4.3 to 4.4 with not a single hitch, hangup, or > hesitation. You got lucky. Don't do this. When you've got some major changes happens in kernel (eg wd driver is removed), you'll be left with a non-working system and the likelihood of being unable to build your system with the updated toolset. The recommended way is in the Handbook. If you do it any other way, anything goes wrong, it's own your fault. -- Jonathan Chen | To do is to be -- Nietzsche | To be is to do -- Sartre | Scooby do be do -- Scooby To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message