From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jan 20 11:30:31 2003 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 B537837B401 for ; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 11:30:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.netcabo.pt (smtp.netcabo.pt [212.113.174.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B45B343E4A for ; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 11:30:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brunomiguel@netcabo.pt) Received: from cheetah ([81.84.57.55]) by smtp.netcabo.pt with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.5329); Mon, 20 Jan 2003 19:28:04 +0000 From: "Bruno Afonso" Organization: Artists, Inc. To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 19:29:31 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: upgrading from STABLE to 5.0 Reply-To: brunomiguel@netcabo.pt Message-ID: <3E2C4E1B.21872.103F62F@localhost> In-reply-to: <1043080805.29319.14.camel@x74-47.forestry.umn.edu> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v4.02a) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body X-OriginalArrivalTime: 20 Jan 2003 19:28:04.0612 (UTC) FILETIME=[0DB39C40:01C2C0BA] Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 20 Jan 2003 at 10:40, Kirk R. Wythers wrote... > 1) I see a line in the UPDATING file that says: > make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE > > should 'YOUR_KERNEL_HERE' be just the name of my kernel (in my case > LORAXKERNEL) or the compete path to that kernel (from uname -a: > /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/LORAXKERNEL)? Only name. > 2) is point [8] 'In order to have a kernel that can run the 4.x binaries > needed to do an installworld, you must include the COMPAT_FREEBSD4 > option in your kernel. Failure to do so may leave you with a system > that is hard to boot to recover.' only in reference to those who track > CURRENT? I am a little unclear as to the distinction between STABLE and > CURRRENT with this release... Stable - 4.x You may look at that as Current = 5.0, although it is not true. 5.0 comes from the 5_0 branch. Bruno Miguel Afonso Biological Eng. student. brunomiguel@dequim.ist.utl.pt D.E.Q. @ I.S.T. - Portugal To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message