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Date:      Fri, 9 Jan 2004 22:11:33 +1100
From:      Tony Frank <tfrank@optushome.com.au>
To:        Hye-Shik Chang <perky@i18n.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 4.x -> 5.x
Message-ID:  <20040109111133.GA58630@marvin.home.local>
In-Reply-To: <20040107124038.GA37600@i18n.org>
References:  <20040107104515.GA42786@izb.knu.ac.kr> <20040107124038.GA37600@i18n.org>

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Hi there,

On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 09:40:38PM +0900, Hye-Shik Chang wrote:

> > i want upgrade from 4.x to 5.x
> For remote upgrade:
> 
> 1) update your source tree to 5.x
> 2) mergemaster -p
> 3) cd /usr/src && make buildworld buildkernel
> 4) mergemaster
> 5) make installkernel
> 5) mkdir /usr/tmpfs && make installworld DESTDIR=/usr/tmpfs
> 6) chflags noschg /bin/* /sbin/* /usr/bin/* /usr/sbin/* /usr/lib/* \
> 	/usr/libexec/*
> 7) tar -C /usr/tmpfs -cpf . | tar -C / -xpvf -
> 8) reboot

Is there any particular reason to do these steps 5-7 instead of just a 'make installworld' ?

Thanks,

Tony
> 



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