Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 11:34:55 -0600 (CST) From: Chris Costello <chris@furrball.dyn.ml.org> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, JFOSTER@CSKAUTO.COM Subject: Re: Getting to Stable and boot floppies Message-ID: <199811241734.LAA03292@furrball.dyn.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <BF4A830F5207D2119420006008A1DB14DDC40F@v128041.vandenberg.af.mil>
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> From: "Foster, Jim" <JFOSTER@CSKAUTO.COM> > To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, > "'freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> > Subject: Getting to Stable and boot floppies > Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 10:18:08 -0700 > > Hi all, > > I am trying to work my way from 2.2.7-Release to 2.2.7-Stable. While most > of my questions were answered by the folks over on FreeBSD-stable, one very > important question (at least to me) was left unanswered. > > I need to boot my machine from a floppy, but I can't seem to find out where > the floppy image will be at to rebuild the disk. Will it be a single file > like boot.flp, or will it be a set of files that need to be installed? I > assume that it will be made after the kernel is re-built. Is that a correct > assumption? You will need the stable supfile and the directions. They should be in the handbook. Basically, you will type something similar to cvsup stable-supfile (as the root user) and it will download a group of files into /usr/src. From there, you go to single-user mode and go into /usr/src and type: (make buildworld && make installworld) this would take a few hours, depending on your hardware. Make sure it was successful, and if so, you will have a new set of binaries installed, and then you would go and make your kernel. If your kernel is GENERIC, for example, you could do: cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf config GENERIC cd ../../compile/GENERIC (make && make install) If all goes well, your system should be upgraded to FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE. Just type 'reboot' when finished. > > Thanks, and please be sure to cc directly to me since I don't subscribe to > FreeBSD-questions or FreeBSD-hackers because of the volume of mail that I > receive. > > Jim > -Chris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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