From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 6 13:10: 7 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 E32D137B400 for ; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 13:10:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.thundernet.cz (mail.thundernet.cz [62.77.87.114]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 58A1C43E42 for ; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 13:09:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from neuhauser@bellavista.cz) Received: (qmail 19939 invoked from network); 6 Sep 2002 20:09:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO freepuppy.bellavista.cz) (62.168.44.50) by mail.thundernet.cz with SMTP; 6 Sep 2002 20:09:53 -0000 Received: by freepuppy.bellavista.cz (Postfix, from userid 1001) id A07BD79F; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 22:09:51 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 22:09:51 +0200 From: Roman Neuhauser To: Anthony Abby Cc: Bsd Neophyte , Jonathan Chen , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: upgrading and updating .... extremely complicated for me. Message-ID: <20020906200951.GF83171@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> Mail-Followup-To: Anthony Abby , Bsd Neophyte , Jonathan Chen , FreeBSD Questions References: <20020906190323.71502.qmail@web20108.mail.yahoo.com> <1031341376.23123.5.camel@laptop.aplusdata.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1031341376.23123.5.camel@laptop.aplusdata.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i 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 # at 2002-09-06 15:42:56 -0400 anthonyabby@aplusdata.com top-posted : > Oh yes I agree 100%. To experienced people, the handbook is actually > pretty good. Well, even to non-experienced people the handbook is > pretty good, but not all sections. Some sections, including the one > about building a new kernel (buildworld) are horrible! In fact much of > it is out of order, and some of it you don't even have to do. agreed. i remember the cutting-edge section was strangely twisted when i read it... over a year ago. i had to jump back and forth through the page as the steps were listed out of order with all too frequent digressions. when it turned out that rebuilding the system is a 9-step procedure, i was wondering why it had to be so painful. :) 1 # su 2 # cd /usr/src 3 # make update 4 # make buildworld 5 # make buildkernel KERNCONF= 6 # make installkernel KERNCONF= 7 # make installworld 8 # mergemaster -si 9 # shutdown -r now -- begin 666 nonexistent.vbs FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE 10:02PM up 17 days, 3:55, 6 users, load averages: 0.03, 0.01, 0.00 end To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message