From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 28 10:19:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n0b.san.rr.com (dt051n0b.san.rr.com [204.210.32.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 494FE37B6BE for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 10:18:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (doug@master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n0b.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA36771; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 10:18:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Message-ID: <38E0F773.6B847D93@gorean.org> Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 10:18:27 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT-0325 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: miy Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: upgrading from 3.4 to 4.0 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG miy wrote: > > I am fairly new to freebsd, and I want to keep up to date with > everything available. I am upgrading from 3.4 Stable to 4.0 and I am > having some difficulty. I began by using CVSup in order to update the > sources, and then I did the following: > > cd /usr/src > make buildworld > cd /usr/src/sbin/mknod > make install > cd /usr/src/sys/modules > make install > cd /usr/src > > This has all worked. Now as I try to configure my kernel > /usr/sbin/conifg MYKERNEL > > I get the following error: > > config: can't open ../conf/devices.i386 Your old kernel file won't work. Start off with compiling GENERIC and then when you get a feel for the new system start adding/deleting from it. Good luck, Doug -- "So, the cows were part of a dream that dreamed itself into existence? Is that possible?" asked the student incredulously. The master simply replied, "Mu." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message