From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jan 5 20:44:47 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA11365 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 20:44:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from oldnews.quick.net ([207.212.170.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA11355 for ; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 20:44:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from donegan@oldnews.quick.net) Received: (from donegan@localhost) by oldnews.quick.net (8.8.5/8.6.9) id UAA14394; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 20:43:13 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 20:43:13 -0800 (PST) From: "Steven P. Donegan" To: Eddie Irvine cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installed 3.0 CD. Flag day? In-Reply-To: <3692D945.5A09B394@tpgi.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 6 Jan 1999, Eddie Irvine wrote: > I've installed the 3.0 CD. > I've done a few recent cvsup's and make worlds, > and will continue to do so. > I've built a custom kernel and will continue to > do so. > > It seems to me that everything apart from the kernel is > in elf format. > > So, does this mean I don't need to do the "a.out to elf upgrade"? > I did a full aout to elf conversion - at this moment I'm replying to this email from a BSDI UNIX system - the conversion totally trashed my system - many drivers died (ethernet de0 was the killer). Based on past experience I think I'll just snarf a current floppy set and install from the net over my old system. As it's a development system it's not a biggie - but it is annoying. I use it as my very fast X terminal :-) In short - no matter how much push is on to do the elf conversion - advance at your own risk - I personally don't sweat my toy SMP system being down - no biggie - it's an acceptable risk for experimentation - but if you have any intent that your system will be available - well you are taking big risks at present. BTW - mergemaster really caused fun here. It's only a 1 user system beyond root - and it trashed passwd, group etc. Not that it matters to me - I'm just going to rebuild from clean partitions - but others would probably be unhappy :-| Ah well - who cares - it's just techy play anyway :-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message