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Date:      Sun, 27 Jun 1999 11:42:23 +0200 (SAST)
From:      Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com>
To:        sue@welearn.com.au (Sue Blake)
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Upgrading - one more time please
Message-ID:  <199906270942.LAA15120@ceia.nordier.com>
In-Reply-To: <19990627191626.53465@welearn.com.au> from Sue Blake at "Jun 27, 1999 07:16:26 pm"

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> I've got a machine running 2.2.7-STABLE which I want to upgrade to
> the current -STABLE. I also want the full repository.
> I have a 3.1-RELEASE CD, so I can grab its repository, cvsup, and
> pull out the latest -STABLE sources.
> 
> Then, according to Jordan's post, I just go 'make upgrade' and build a
> new kernel, but according to Mike's post it might not work, according
> to other people I might have to upgrade first to 2.2.8 and/or do or not
> do lots of other hoop jumping. Then I look at Ruslan Ermilov's nice
> tutorial for 3.0-STABLE and it's telling a whole different story again.
> And there was some murmuring about "installing new boot blocks" a while
> ago but I don't recall seeing an explanation of what exactly one has to
> do. I wonder what else I've forgotten and where it might be written
> down.
 
We did a number of 2.2.1R to 3.2R upgrades here recently.  Probably
the simplest approach is to use your 3.1R CD-ROM and install over
the existing files in "upgrade" mode, preferably after backing up
at least your own files.  The 3.1R binaries should then have little
or no difficult doing a "make world" on the -stable sources, once
you have them.

Regarding the boot blocks: if you get an error message when rebooting
3.1R, type in

    /boot/loader

at the "boot: " prompt and the machine should boot.  Thereafter, you
can do a

    disklabel -B wd0

(or equivalent) to install the new boot blocks.

-- 
Robert Nordier


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