From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 25 15:39: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw0.transarc.com (xfw.transarc.ibm.com [192.54.226.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06EC237B56A for ; Tue, 25 Apr 2000 15:39:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pat@transarc.ibm.com) Received: from mailhost2.transarc.ibm.com (mailhost2.transarc.ibm.com [9.38.192.125]) by fw0.transarc.com (AIX4.2/UCB 8.7/8.7) with ESMTP id SAA19238; Tue, 25 Apr 2000 18:19:21 -0400 (EDT) Received: from smithfield.transarc.ibm.com (smithfield.transarc.ibm.com [9.38.192.92]) by mailhost2.transarc.ibm.com (8.8.0/8.8.0) with SMTP id SAA16515; Tue, 25 Apr 2000 18:06:38 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 18:06:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Pat Barron To: Kent Stewart Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading 2.2.6 to 4.0-RELEASE In-Reply-To: <39060EB7.C36253@3-cities.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Kent Stewart wrote: > > For starters, they don't even recommend going straight to 3.4 in one > step and I think that would be true even more in going to 4.0. > > I would probably try 2.2.8 > 3.2 > ? >4.0. The question is whether you > can bypass 3.4 or not. The stretch from a.out to elf is the jump at > 3.2. The bummer for me is that I can't fit more than one release on my machine at the same time, and 2.2.6 was the last release that supported the SCSI interface (Future Domain 8xx/950) on my laptop docking station; as soon as I advance beyond 2.2.6, I will lose my CD-ROM. So, I've so far had to install 2.2.6, blow away the /usr/src directory, and then (while running 2.2.6) mount the 4.0-RELEASE CD and manually unpack the new sources. I suppose I could try building a 3.3 world with -DWANT_AOUT and trying to run the 3.3 binaries with a 2.2.6 kernel (just to preserve access to the CD-ROM), and then trying to install a 4.0 world on top of that ... but I tried something similar when I went from 1.1 to 2.1, and that didn't work out too well either, so I don't know why I'd expect it to be different from 2.2.6 to 3.3 ... Or, I could just go out and buy a supported PCMCIA SCSI card and just install 4.0-RELEASE fresh from the CD, and save myself a world of pain ... :-) --Pat. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message