Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 10:56:06 -0400 (EDT) From: John Mills <jmmills@telocity.com> To: FreeBSD-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: NewbieQ on Update (Was: Re: FreeBSD patch level) Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0205011032270.1726-100000@otter.mills-atl.com> In-Reply-To: <20020501120505.J75614@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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Hello - I am going through my first kernel building exercise and would appreciate confirmation or redirection. On Wed, 1 May 2002, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > There's no such thing. You're trying to apply Linux terminology to > FreeBSD. We don't "patch", we update. A RELEASE is just that, a > release, and so it stays the way it is. In the meantime, fixes get > applied to the STABLE branch in the CVS tree. This is all described > in the handbook. I installed FreeBSD-4.5 from 'RELEASE' CDs I made. I am happy with the setup and functionality I got in a _very_ modest (quaint, even) platform: Cyrix-133[?] with 16MBy RAM, c. 3GBy HDD, old CD. This is a 'learner' box, not mission-critical. Now I want to be sure I have a "reasonable" set of fixes, especially security fixes. I used 'cvsup' and the 'standard-supfile' to pull a RELENG_4_5 fileset. Running 'make world' was about a 7-hour project, not counting a number of aborts apparently due to overheating. It finally ran to completion when I took the cover off the box. Time to add more ventilation and move all those cables _away_ from the RAM! My next step is presumably the kernel. My first question is, was this a good tag to achieve what I wanted, or should I have used RELENG_4 (or something else)? My second question is, if I do change to RELENG_4 ("Stable", if I understand), will my system be dramatically different from what I got with 4.5 RELEASE, or what I'll get with RELENG_4_5 ? I've noticed only one peculiarity in my current installation: the HDDs on my primary IDE are found and work properly by interupt, but for some reason the CDROM drive on the secondary is seen as "PIO" - these controllers have IRQs 14 and 15 respectively, according to the BIOS's startup log. My third question is: should this be a kernel configuration issue, a startup configuration issue, or some type of passed parameter at boot? I plan to walk through the steps (including some backups) outlined in the Handbook and the FreeBSD Reference (Thanks, Greg.), but a bit of hand-holding would be appreciated. TIA. - John Mills To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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