From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 18 05:31:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA12972 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 18 Oct 1998 05:31:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from d132-h017.rh.rit.edu (d132-h017.rh.rit.edu [129.21.132.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA12967 for ; Sun, 18 Oct 1998 05:31:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vega@d132-h017.rh.rit.edu) Received: from localhost (vega@localhost) by d132-h017.rh.rit.edu (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA18744; Sun, 18 Oct 1998 08:24:52 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from vega@d132-h017.rh.rit.edu) Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 08:24:52 -0400 (EDT) From: VEGA To: Khetan Gajjar cc: FreeBSD questions Subject: Re: 3.0 tag In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, Khetan Gajjar wrote: > > Have you made world from your 2.2.x-STABLE box to 3.0 ? > Anything to watch out for ? > > --- > Khetan Gajjar (!kg1779) * khetan@iafrica.com ; khetan@os.org.za i went from 2.2.7 RELEASE to 3.0, and the make world went fine, but i did run into a few snags: 1) before i could get the kernel to compile after the make buildworld and make installworld i had to remove the entire directory that my old kernel was in (the one that you type 'make' in to compile a kernel) and start with the generic kernel. 2) after the generic kernel compiled i had to reset the computer with the reset button; shutdown coredumped on me every time. after i did the first reboot, however, shutdown worked fine, and i was able to recompile the old kernel that i had before as well (after checking in LINT for any changes) hope this helps... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message