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author | green <green@FreeBSD.org> | 2004-06-26 21:58:56 +0000 |
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committer | green <green@FreeBSD.org> | 2004-06-26 21:58:56 +0000 |
commit | cb255821c823542b64070fb2864196922202a027 (patch) | |
tree | 3d2f008fbb193fafd1202c885048a81da4389be9 | |
parent | cecd534f43c4e8e4c63d5ad42c32c0ed9ea6d14b (diff) | |
download | FreeBSD-src-cb255821c823542b64070fb2864196922202a027.zip FreeBSD-src-cb255821c823542b64070fb2864196922202a027.tar.gz |
Make some bugfixes and improve some text in the description of how to
update from 4.x to 5.x.
Submitted by: Frerich Raabe <raabe@kde.org>
-rw-r--r-- | UPDATING | 16 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 5 deletions
@@ -1530,16 +1530,16 @@ COMMON ITEMS: <maybe fix /etc/fstab> [7] make buildworld [9] make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE [8] - cp src/sys/${MACHINE}/conf/GENERIC.hints /boot/device.hints [2] + cp sys/${MACHINE}/conf/GENERIC.hints /boot/device.hints [2] make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE - cd src/sys/boot ; make install [6] + cd sys/boot ; make STRIP="" install [6] [1] <reboot in single user> [3] - /etc/rc.d/preseedrandom [10] + /usr/src/etc/rc.d/preseedrandom [10] mergemaster -p [5] rm -rf /usr/include/g++ make installworld - mergemaster [4] + mergemaster -i [4] <reboot> Make sure that you've read the UPDATING file to understand the @@ -1609,7 +1609,13 @@ COMMON ITEMS: that is hard to boot to recover. [9] When checking out sources, you must include the -P flag to have - cvs prune empty directories. + cvs prune empty directories. Also, if CPUTYPE is defined in your + /etc/make.conf, make sure to use the "?=" instead of the "=" assignment + operator, so that buildworld can override the CPUTYPE if it needs to. + In case you would like to avoid installing new packages of everything, + you might want to uncomment the "COMPAT4X= YES" entry, so that 4.x + compatibility libraries are build which should allow you to continue + using your existing software for a while. [10] In order to create temporary files, /dev/random must be initialized by feeding data into it. /etc/rc.d/preseedrandom |