Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 20:52:36 -0500 From: Brandon Fosdick <bfoz@glue.umd.edu> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: 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: <38D03E64.3D17FC34@glue.umd.edu> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003151354390.1980-100000@dt051n0b.san.rr.com> <200003152159.OAA89926@harmony.village.org>
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Warner Losh wrote: > > In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003151354390.1980-100000@dt051n0b.san.rr.com> Doug Barton writes: > : You can find instructions at > : http://freebsd.simplenet.com/make-upgrade.html. I am planning to update > : that file for 3.4 -> 4.0 asap BTW. > > Let me know if the following doesn't work: > To update from 3.x to 4.0 stable > -------------------------------- > cd /usr/src > make buildworld > cd sbin/mknod > make install > <follow directions to build/install a kernel> > <follow rebuild disk /dev entries above> [*] > reboot > <in single user> > cd /usr/src > make -DNOINFO installworld > make installworld > > [*] You may need to switch from wd to ad ala 19991210 > > To build a kernel > ----------------- > Update config, genassym and go: > cd src/usr.bin/genassym > make depend all install > cd ../../usr.sbin/config > make depend all install > cd ../../sys/i386/conf > config YOUR_KERNEL_HERE > cd ../../compile/YOUR_KERNEL_HERE > make depend && make > make install > > To rebuild disk /dev entries > ---------------------------- > > MAKEDEV should be copied from src/etc/MAKEDEV to /dev before > starting the following: > > For N in the list of disks > MAKEDEV N # eg ad0 > for M in the list of slices > MAKEDEV NsMa # eg ad0s1a 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... -Brandon -- bfoz@glue.umd.edu "Lead, follow, or get run over" "In life there are those who steer, and those who push" "I'm not impatient, the world is too slow" "Life is short, so have fun, play hard, and leave a good looking corpse" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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