Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 20:24:35 +0000 From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Alternative way to do -stable to -current upgrade Message-ID: <20000305202435.A39101@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>
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Hi guys,
I had an abortive -stable to -current upgrade late last week, despite
following the directions in UPGRADING, the two kernels I built (one
custom, one GENERIC) both froze on me during the reboot process.
I'm a little wary of doing it again like that, because it does take
some time to fix.
So I had an alternative idea. How about doing the following:
1. Download -current boot.flp, mfsroot.flp, fixit.flp, and write to
floppies
2. cd /usr/src && make buildworld
3. Reboot from boot/mfsroot.flp
4. When prompted, use the fixit floppy to get a shell
5. Mount all the fixed disk partitions, and then (assuming they're all
mounted under /mnt/root)
cd /mnt/root/usr/src && make DESTDIR=/mnt/root
6. Mergemaster
7. Build and install a new kernel
This has the added advantage that if there's something in your system
that was OK in -stable, but doesn't work in -current, you're going to
find out about it before you've done an installworld, and before you've
overwritten a working -stable /kernel, because boot.flp will fail to
work.
The only problem is that mergemaster assumes it's merging in to /etc,
when that wouldn't be the case here -- mergemaster would need another
config option ($DEST_ETC ?) to specify where to install to.
Can anyone see anything there that's likely not to work?
N
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