From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 28 22:25:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from relay.ucb.crimea.ua (relay.ucb.crimea.ua [212.110.138.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DA4537B5CD for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 22:25:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ru@ucb.crimea.ua) Received: (from ru@localhost) by relay.ucb.crimea.ua (8.9.3/8.9.3/UCB) id JAA27905; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 09:25:59 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from ru) Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 09:25:59 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: miy Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: upgrading from 3.4 to 4.0 Message-ID: <20000329092559.C24680@relay.ucb.crimea.ua> Mail-Followup-To: miy , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: ; from miy on Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 11:26:11AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 11:26:11AM -0500, miy wrote: > > I am fairly new to freebsd, and I want to keep up to date with > everything available. I am upgrading from 3.4 Stable to 4.0 and I am > having some difficulty. I began by using CVSup in order to update the > sources, and then I did the following: > > cd /usr/src > make buildworld > cd /usr/src/sbin/mknod > make install > cd /usr/src/sys/modules > make install > cd /usr/src > > This has all worked. Now as I try to configure my kernel > /usr/sbin/conifg MYKERNEL > > I get the following error: > > config: can't open ../conf/devices.i386 > > > I would really appreciate any help you can offer. > Look at the beginning of the 4.0-STABLE src/UPDATING: : To build a kernel : ----------------- : cd /usr/src : # If you have not already done so, please buildworld here : make buildkernel KERNEL= : make installkernel KERNEL= : # Verify that the new kernel works, it will be installed as : # /YOUR_KERNEL_HERE : chflags noschg /kernel : mv /kernel /kernel.old : mv /YOUR_KERNEL_HERE /kernel : chflags schg /kernel Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA of the ru@ucb.crimea.ua United Commercial Bank, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.247.647 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message