From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 29 12:21:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F10B737B401 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 12:21:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from galilee.polands.org (new-24-208-57-240.new.rr.com [24.208.57.240]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C3E943E77 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 12:21:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doug@polands.org) Received: from mydomain.com (samaria.polands.org [172.16.1.17]) by galilee.polands.org (8.12.5/8.12.5) with SMTP id g9TKLdZt032170; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 14:21:40 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from doug@polands.org) Received: from 63.104.35.130 (proxying for 164.5.45.35) (SquirrelMail authenticated user djp) by samaria.polands.org with HTTP; Tue, 29 Oct 2002 14:21:40 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <29432.63.104.35.130.1035922900.squirrel@samaria.polands.org> Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 14:21:40 -0600 (CST) Subject: Re: Yes, but how do I upgrade? From: "Doug Poland" To: In-Reply-To: <20021029201613.PKGT14315.fed1mtao04.cox.net@smtp.west.cox.net> References: <20021029201613.PKGT14315.fed1mtao04.cox.net@smtp.west.cox.net> X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal Cc: , X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.2.8) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Steve Wingate said: > >> >> From: Steve Warwick >> Date: 2002/10/29 Tue PM 03:10:44 EST >> Subject: Yes, but how do I upgrade? >> >> Hi >> >> I have a 4.3 BSD machine to upgrade, and it's a production >> machine :( >> >> Ok, got that, but how do I upgrade? >> > > Theoretically, it CAN be as simple as > 1. cvsup -h cvsup1.freebsd.org > /usr/share/examples/cvsup/stable-supfile 2. cd /usr/src > 3. make world > 4. make kernel KERNCONF=yourkernelfile > 5. mergemaster > 6. reboot > Wouldn't a prudent person include: 4.5 make installkernel KERNCONF=yourkernelfile 4.6 make installworld ?? -- Regards, Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message