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Date:      Fri, 6 Sep 2002 22:09:51 +0200
From:      Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz>
To:        Anthony Abby <anthonyabby@aplusdata.com>
Cc:        Bsd Neophyte <bsdneophyte@yahoo.com>, Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: upgrading and updating .... extremely complicated for me.
Message-ID:  <20020906200951.GF83171@freepuppy.bellavista.cz>
In-Reply-To: <1031341376.23123.5.camel@laptop.aplusdata.com>
References:  <20020906190323.71502.qmail@web20108.mail.yahoo.com> <1031341376.23123.5.camel@laptop.aplusdata.com>

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# at 2002-09-06 15:42:56 -0400 anthonyabby@aplusdata.com top-posted :
> Oh yes I agree 100%.  To experienced people, the handbook is actually
> pretty good.  Well, even to non-experienced people the handbook is
> pretty good, but not all sections.  Some sections, including the one
> about building a new kernel (buildworld) are horrible!  In fact much of
> it is out of order, and some of it you don't even have to do.

    agreed. i remember the cutting-edge section was strangely twisted
    when i read it... over a year ago. i had to jump back and forth
    through the page as the steps were listed out of order with all too
    frequent digressions.
    when it turned out that rebuilding the system is a 9-step procedure,
    i was wondering why it had to be so painful. :)

    1 # su
    2 # cd /usr/src
    3 # make update
    4 # make buildworld
    5 # make buildkernel KERNCONF=<the-file-with-your-kernel-config>
    6 # make installkernel KERNCONF=<the-file-with-your-kernel-config>
    7 # make installworld
    8 # mergemaster -si
    9 # shutdown -r now

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