From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 21 9:53:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mailhub.state.me.us (mailhub.state.me.us [141.114.122.227]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1738D37B416 for ; Wed, 21 Nov 2001 09:53:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from katahdin.bmv.state.me.us by mailhub.state.me.us with ESMTP for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Wed, 21 Nov 2001 12:47:42 -0500 Received: from localhost (darren@localhost) by katahdin.bmv.state.me.us (AIX4.2/UCB 8.7/8.7) with ESMTP id MAA10392 for ; Wed, 21 Nov 2001 12:53:55 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 12:53:55 -0500 (EST) From: Darren Henderson To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Observations on upgrading from 4.4-RELEASE to 5.0-CURRENT Message-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Upgrading from a fresh 4.4-RELEASE install to 5.0-CURRENT is remarkably simple at this point in time, a couple of observations however... I did have to do an installworld before I could install a new kernel. Trying to do an installkernel first fails for lack of kldxref. Perhaps that could be committed to STABLE to make going from STABLE to CURRENT a bit simpler if it doesn't carry a huge number of dependencies? That and the lack of a /boot/device.hints file are the only complications I saw while doing the upgrade. Not a major concern obviously, just thinking in terms of when folks move from 4.x-STABLE to 5.0-RELEASE in the future. Things will of course change by then I'm sure. Something else... it seems to me that just a few weeks ago I was able to install CURRENT directly from current.freebsd.org with sysinstall after setting the release option to point to one of the 5.0 snaps, can't do that now as you can't log into that system as anonymous. Broken? No longer available? Just a fluke that I was able to do it before? ________________________________________________________________________ Darren Henderson darren@bmv.state.me.us darren.henderson@state.me.us To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message