Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 14:33:25 +0100 From: Kai Voigt <k@123.org> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Guinea pigs wanted. Message-ID: <19990125143325.D359@123.org> In-Reply-To: <5788.917269094@zippy.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 04:58:14AM -0800 References: <5788.917269094@zippy.cdrom.com>
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Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> In the following shell archive you'll find a set of patches, to be
> applied relative to a 3.0S or 4.0C /usr/src tree, and a shell script
> which you should move into /usr/src/release/scripts. Once you've done
> that, you should be able to type "make upgrade" to update your 2.2.x
> or 3.0C fully to an ELF 3.0S or 4.0C system (depending on what's in
> your /usr/src).
I installed a 3.0R last year, sup'ed the tag=. sources and "make upgrade"
is running now. I just wonder why it's building tons of aout stuff now,
I thought 3.0R already was elf in userland and only the kernel needs to
be build with a new booting environment.
> THESE PATCHES ARE ALPHA TEST QUALITY! They might just as soon destroy
> as upgrade your system and you should not do it on a production box
> (heh heh! :). Until I've gotten some feedback on and committed a
> final version of these changes to the tree, they should be used by
> bleeding-edge types only. These patches take you right up to and over
> the edge in one swoop, so be aware that if you set NOCONFIRM=yes
> you'll even get rebooted once the kernel and new boot blocks are
> installed. You Have Been Warned, etc.
In a few hours (spare 100Mhz box), I will let you know how things turned
out.
Kai
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