Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:50:16 -0500 (EST) From: "Chuck O'Donnell" <cao@bus.net> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Guinea pigs wanted. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990125203702.16578A-100000@milf18.bus.net> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19990125203055.007a4430@bus.net>
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On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, 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). > > 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. > I tried the patches on 2.2.8-RELEASE installed from the cdrom. /usr/src was supped today. Compiled okay. At the first (maybe second?) prompt, regarding "move all the installed directories", it failed with "missing /usr/local/lib/aout". I created /usr/local/lib/aout and continued directly. Then after a bit, experienced a second problem at "Installing new boot blocks", with error "disklabel: /dev/rda0: No such file or directory" I stopped here, because I'm not actually sure how to fix that with the system in its current state (no worries, it's a spare machine). I have this machine free for a few days, so I can try this a couple times if necesssary. Thanks. Chuck To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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