Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 11:33:40 -0500 From: "Doug Reynolds" <mav@wastegate.net> To: "Erik Trulsson" <ertr1013@student.uu.se> Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Patrick Fish (patrick@pwhsnet.com)" <patrick@pwhsnet.com> Subject: Re: 4.4-RELEASE to 4.4-STABLE Message-ID: <20020126163139.678734844F@wastegate.net> In-Reply-To: <20020126074219.GA43298@student.uu.se>
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On Sat, 26 Jan 2002 08:42:20 +0100, Erik Trulsson wrote: >On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 02:29:51AM -0500, Doug Reynolds wrote: >> >> cvsup >> >> make buildworld >> make kernel KERNCONF=yourkernelconf >> reboot >> boot single user mode by hitting the space and typing boot -s and >> enter. hit enter when it asks you for the shell; then: >> fsck -p >> umount -a >This umount seems quite unnecessary since if you just rebooted into >single-user mode the only thing mounted will be / which is mounted >read-only. OTOH one thing you probably do want here instead is >swapon -a >to make sure that any swapspace you have can be used. >(I once forgot that on a memory-poor machine. The installworld died > halfway through with an out-of-memory error.) I thought / was readonly until you fsck'd and remountd it. swapon -a would be good, although my machine has 256megs >> mount -a >> >> make installworld >> mergemaster >> reboot >> >> that'll up you to the latest. >> >> (btw, if anyone sees any safely problems with this order, lemme know, >> seems totally redundant) > >Redundant? No. You can usually skip the 'reboot into single-user mode' >part without any ill-effects but that is about it. however, if you just shutdown now, you wont be able to test the kernel before you install the userland. and everyone claims it is hard to go back to the old userland after you commit it. on my system, since it isn't production or anything, i'd probably just do it all in multi-user mode just to see if i could break it. :) --- doug reynolds | the maverick | mav@wastegate.net PGP Public Key Fingerprint: 6E7B 9993 B503 6D45 E33A 2019 26E5 C1DB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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