Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 18:06:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Pat Barron <pat@transarc.ibm.com> To: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading 2.2.6 to 4.0-RELEASE Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.1000425175347.1991B-100000@smithfield.transarc.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <39060EB7.C36253@3-cities.com>
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On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Kent Stewart wrote: > > For starters, they don't even recommend going straight to 3.4 in one > step and I think that would be true even more in going to 4.0. > > I would probably try 2.2.8 > 3.2 > ? >4.0. The question is whether you > can bypass 3.4 or not. The stretch from a.out to elf is the jump at > 3.2. The bummer for me is that I can't fit more than one release on my machine at the same time, and 2.2.6 was the last release that supported the SCSI interface (Future Domain 8xx/950) on my laptop docking station; as soon as I advance beyond 2.2.6, I will lose my CD-ROM. So, I've so far had to install 2.2.6, blow away the /usr/src directory, and then (while running 2.2.6) mount the 4.0-RELEASE CD and manually unpack the new sources. I suppose I could try building a 3.3 world with -DWANT_AOUT and trying to run the 3.3 binaries with a 2.2.6 kernel (just to preserve access to the CD-ROM), and then trying to install a 4.0 world on top of that ... but I tried something similar when I went from 1.1 to 2.1, and that didn't work out too well either, so I don't know why I'd expect it to be different from 2.2.6 to 3.3 ... Or, I could just go out and buy a supported PCMCIA SCSI card and just install 4.0-RELEASE fresh from the CD, and save myself a world of pain ... :-) --Pat. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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