From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Oct 8 23:39:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from beoclu-01.phy.gasou.edu (beoclu-01.phy.GaSoU.edu [141.165.40.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4BEB37B502 for ; Sun, 8 Oct 2000 23:39:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from janus.main.gsbcnet (janus.main.gsbcnet [192.168.0.1]) by beoclu-01.phy.gasou.edu (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e996dL408025; Mon, 9 Oct 2000 02:39:21 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from sdodson@beoclu-01.phy.gasou.edu) Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 02:39:20 -0400 (EDT) From: Scott Dodson To: Warner Losh Cc: Jon Paterson , "'freebsd-stable@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Correct sequence for keeping a 4.1 system stable. In-Reply-To: <200010051637.KAA51557@harmony.village.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Warner Losh wrote: > In message Jon Paterson writes: > : If these seem like trivial questions please do not flame me, I have never > : attempted to do this before and do not want to damage a working system! > > >From src/UPDATING: > > To update from 4.0-RELEASE or later to the most current > 4.x-STABLE > ---------- > make buildworld > make buildkernel KERNEL=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE > make installkernel KERNEL=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE > reboot (in single user) [1] > make installworld > mergemaster > reboot Has anyone else had problems following this method? I've only had success with building world, installing world, building and then of course installing the kernel Everytime i've tried it as described in UPDATING, i've gotten many errors. Never had a problem doing it the way i've described. -scott To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message