Date: Sun, 7 Mar 1999 18:48:15 -0500 (EST) From: Spike <spork@startrekmail.com> To: Kerberus <kerberus@inetu.net> Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: best way to upgrade Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903071841150.342-100000@nyc-ny79-48.ix.netcom.com> In-Reply-To: <36E2FF79.87B876B6@inetu.net>
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On Sun, 7 Mar 1999, Kerberus wrote: > Ok exactly what is the best way to upgrade from 2.2.8 to 3.1 , > should i do this by source or should i use the sysinstall method, what > problems if any, should i be aware of potentially runnning into, ie.. > boot block problems, bad make world, ports not compiling ??? ive seen > alot of traffic about 3.1 problems.... are these centralized due to the > build of 3.1 or are they varied dependent on the user/system upgraded I have no experience with the sysinstall method, but the make world method work perfectly well for me. 1. Make backups. 2. cvsup newest source- (RELENG_3 is the tag) 3. cd /usr/src && make aout-to-elf-buildworld && shutdown now will rebuild entire system to new version. This will take a lot of time, several hours on my PII 300/128M/UW SCSI machine. 4. Once you are in singleuser, cd /usr/src again and make aout-to-elf-installworld. Do not interrupt this process, or it may leave your system unbootable. 5. Install the new elf aware bootblocks- refer to www.freebsd.org/~rnordier/boot.txt for details. 6. Reboot the machine. You will now be running an elf system, and will have to do certain things like set your ldconfig -aout path and rebuild your ports. I set up all my ports to get rebuilt in sequence, with a simple shell script, which took a while put got everything done. Good luck. > > thanks in advance. > > K. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > -Spike Gronim sporkl@ix.netcom.com Finger gronimw@shell.stuy.edu for PGP public key. The majority only rules those who let them. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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