Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 03:45:13 -0500 From: "Subhro Sankha Kar" <subhro@indiashells.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Questions about upgrading from 4.6.2 to 4.7 (and beyond) Message-ID: <20030326084513.98477.qmail@webhosting1.macroshell.com> In-Reply-To: <5.1.1.6.0.20030326020015.00b29e20@207.254.222.218> References: <5.1.1.6.0.20030326020015.00b29e20@207.254.222.218>
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James Schmidt writes: > I apologize in advance for my unfamiliarity with the workings of the > FreeBSD world. Out of the several hundred machines I administer I have > only the one FreeBSD box, and it is considered a production server, so I > don't get much chance to play around with it. > > At any rate, one of the tasks I'm going to be undertaking shortly is to > migrate it from 4.6.2-RELEASE-p3 to 4.7-RELEASE (and soon after that, to > 4.8) and I have several questions. Actually, to be more precise, I would > just like someone to verify that what I am doing is correct. > > First, the overall cvsup process - I want to make sure I am doing this > right, someone please let me know if any of this is incorrect or > inefficient. Below is my cvsupfile: > > *default host=cvsup13.FreeBSD.org > *default base=/usr > *default prefix=/usr > *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4_7 > *default delete use-rel-suffix > *default compress > src-all > # added manually... collection will be filtered through the refuse file > ports-all tag=. > > I should be using the RELEASE branch, and not STABLE or CURRENT, correct ? > > The process I follow to cvsup is as follows: > > # cd /src/cvsup > # cvsup -g -L 2 ./cvsupfile > > Once that is complete, the next steps are to build the kernel and the > sources - and up until now, I've always compiled the kernel the > old-fashioned way (config, make depend, make, make install) - with 4.7, > should I begin using the new and improved method of kernel compiling, as > follows ? > > # cd /usr/src > # make buildworld > # make buildkernel KERNCONF=<kernelname> > # make installkernel KERNCONF=<kernelname> > <reboot> > # make installworld > > I am sorry to be asking such basic questions. I've read through the > pertinent sections of the online FreeBSD manual and I *think* what I am > doing is correct, but I want to make absolutely sure before I reboot the > machine and end up with a kernel panic, umountable root or something > equally as horrific. If anyone sees any glaring omissions or any other > problems with what I'm doing, please let me know. Again, many thanks. > > James Schmidt > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Hello James, There is nothing to apologize. A person can't know everything in the world. What you are doing is exactly right. By the way if you want to have some knowledge on BSD then do have a glance at the FreeBSD Handbook available at the official website. Regards Subhro Sankha Kar IIIT-Calcutta
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