Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 15:30:00 +0000 From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> To: Brandon Fosdick <bfoz@glue.umd.edu> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, Doug Barton <Doug@gorean.org>, Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net>, Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: 3.x -> 4.0-STABLE upgrade instructions Message-ID: <20000317153000.A1532@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <38D03E64.3D17FC34@glue.umd.edu>; from Brandon Fosdick on Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 08:52:36PM -0500 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003151354390.1980-100000@dt051n0b.san.rr.com> <200003152159.OAA89926@harmony.village.org> <38D03E64.3D17FC34@glue.umd.edu>
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On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 08:52:36PM -0500, Brandon Fosdick wrote: > How to go about switching over from wd to ad needs to be explained a little > better. After doing the MAKEDEV routine I went and changed all the wd's in my > fstab to ad's. Boy was that a mistake. Now I have to find somthing I can boot > with that will let me mount the root partition read/write so that I can change > fstab back. On top of that my cdrom suddenly decided to non-bootable. Maybe I'm > just having a bad day... I've got no idea how easy it would be to do, but we could use a variable that we could set in the bootloader to specify where the /etc and /dev directories actually are. It'd be nice to upgrade by creating a /etc.current and a /dev.current. The kernel could then be told to use these directories instead. If, for some reason, your upgrade doesn't work, you can back out to a previous kernel, even if the new /etc and /dev aren't compatible with the old kernel. . . N -- Internet connection, $19.95 a month. Computer, $799.95. Modem, $149.95. Telephone line, $24.95 a month. Software, free. USENET transmission, hundreds if not thousands of dollars. Thinking before posting, priceless. Somethings in life you can't buy. For everything else, there's MasterCard. -- Graham Reed, in the Scary Devil Monastery To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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