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Diffstat (limited to 'UPDATING')
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@@ -1703,7 +1703,7 @@ COMMON ITEMS: To upgrade in-place from 4.x-stable to current ---------------------------------------------- # 5.x uses more space than 4.x. Also, the location of kernel - # modules has changed. If you are installing 5.0 onto a 4.x + # modules has changed. If you are installing 5.x onto a 4.x # system, you'll need about 30MB of free disk space on your / # partition. If you have less than this, you may encounter difficult # to back out of problems with this procedure. If /tmp is on @@ -1714,9 +1714,8 @@ COMMON ITEMS: <make sure you have good level 0 dumps> <maybe fix /etc/fstab> [7] make buildworld [9] - make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE [8] cp sys/${MACHINE}/conf/GENERIC.hints /boot/device.hints [2] - make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE + make kernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE [8] cd sys/boot ; make STRIP="" install [6] [1] <reboot in single user> [3] @@ -1782,25 +1781,36 @@ COMMON ITEMS: described here. [7] Before you upgrade, please make sure that you are not using - compatibility slices. These are device names of the form, on i386 - and other architectures that use MBR slicing, /dev/ad0a without the - actual slice name. Chances are excellent that these will break. + compatibility slices. These are device names of the form /dev/ad0a + without the actual slice name. These will break with 5.x and newer. You generally must update these entries to use the post FreeBSD - 2.x form of /dev/ad0s1a. + 2.x form of /dev/ad0s1a. i386 and pc98 are affected, while alpha + is not. [8] In order to have a kernel that can run the 4.x binaries needed to do an installworld, you must include the COMPAT_FREEBSD4 option in your kernel. Failure to do so may leave you with a system that is hard to boot to recover. + Make sure that you merge any new devices from GENERIC since the + last time you updated your kernel config file. + [9] When checking out sources, you must include the -P flag to have - 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. + cvs prune empty directories. + + 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. + + MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX must be defined in an environment variable, and + not on the command line, or in /etc/make.conf. buildworld will + warn if it is improperly defined. + 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 built which should allow you to continue - using your existing software for a while. + using your existing software for a while. Alternatively, you can + install the misc/compat4x port. [10] In order to create temporary files, /dev/random must be initialized by feeding data into it. src/etc/rc.d/preseedrandom @@ -1814,7 +1824,7 @@ previous releases if your system is older than this. Copyright information: -Copyright 1998, 2002 M. Warner Losh. All Rights Reserved. +Copyright 1998-2004 M. Warner Losh. All Rights Reserved. Redistribution, publication, translation and use, with or without modification, in full or in part, in any form or format of this |