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Subject: Re: makeworld worked - my first attempt at this revisited
From: Chip Wiegand <chip@wiegand.org>
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On Sun, 2002-05-19 at 19:57, parv wrote:
> in message <1021840002.14040.47.camel@chip3.wiegand.org>,
> wrote Chip Wiegand thusly...
> >
> > In a nutshell, these are the steps I followed -
> > # less /usr/src/UPDATING
> 
> > # cd /usr/obj/
> > # chflags -R noschg *
> > # rm -rf usr     (this didn't exist to begin with)
> > # ls -la (it was empty before I even started)
> > # cd /usr/src
> > # make cleandir && make cleandir
> > # make buildworld
> > # make buildkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC
> > # make installkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC
> > # reboot
> > # boot -s
> > # fsck -p
> > # mount -t ufs -a
> 
> you do understand that there is no need to mount all the ufs's, only
> filesystems need to installworld?  if you have only the required
> partitions as ufs's, then, of course, there is no difference.

Didn't know that. I was just following someone else's tutorial. This was
my first time doing this.

> > # swapon -a
> 
> say, why would one want to do fsck and/or swapon? just to be safe?

Again, I'm new at this.
 
> > # cd /usr/src
> > # make installworld
> > # mergemaster -v
> 
> you may also want to look into "-i" option (to install uninstalled files
> w/o being asked).
>   - parv

I'll keep that in mind for the next time, which won't be too long from
now.

--
Chip


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