Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 21:03:05 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net> To: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> Cc: Chris Byrnes <chris@jeah.net>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: upgrade 3.4 to 4.0 Message-ID: <20000614210305.B252@dialin-client.earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <394830F7.21F4C850@math.missouri.edu>; from stephen@math.missouri.edu on Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 08:27:19PM -0500 References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10006142013590.49082-100000@awww.jeah.net> <394830F7.21F4C850@math.missouri.edu>
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On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 08:27:19PM -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > Chris Byrnes wrote: > > > > To update from 3.x to 4.0 stable > > -------------------------------- > > <see notes below> [3] > > cd /usr/src > > <see notes below> [2] > > make buildworld > > cd sbin/mknod > > make install > > cd ../../sys/modules > > make install > > <follow directions to build/install a kernel> > > <follow rebuild disk /dev entries above> [1] > > reboot > > <in single user> > > cd /usr/src > > cd gnu/usr.bin/texinfo/install-info > > make install > > cd ../../../.. > > make installworld [5] > > mergemaster [4] > > reboot > > <multi-user> > > > > I hate to keep asking you questions, but like.. I cant login to the > > machine in single-user mode.. it's a co-located box.. is there a way to > > get around the things you have to do in single-user mode? > > > > I accidently didn't boot into single user mode at that time, and > I found the machine unusable. > > I don't remember why. It might have been that the passwords > did not work. But I think it might have been something else. Maybe if they were NIS passwords. I think the biggest potential problem is with the network setup. Commands like ipfw(8) will not be in sync with the kernel. There is also the problem that the /etc/rc* files are for 3.x rather than 4.0, but this should not be _too_ much of a problem. That said, IIRC, I did manage to do a 3.x to 4.0 upgrade remotely. I was very careful about how I did it, and I had just upgraded some other boxes so the procedure was fresh in my mind at the time. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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