Updating Information for FreeBSD current users

This file is maintainted by Warner Losh. Please send new entries in it to him. It contains a list, in reverse chronologocal order, of major breakages in tracking -current. Not all things will be listed here, and it only starts on Novemeber 18, 1998. If you have an earlier version of FreeBSD, you are on your own to get to November 18, 1998.

19990111 New keyboard and video card drivers are introduced as the first stage of console driver reorganization. You are required to update the kernel configuration file and rebuild the kernel. kbdcontrol, vidcontrol, and screen savers also need recompilation. The instruction can be found in
http://www.freebsd.org/~yokota/sc_update.txt
It has notes on splash screen too.
19990106 Robert Nordier was kind enough to make this page to enable people to install the new bootblocks:
http://www.freebsd.org/~rnordier/boot.txt

When updating to ELF, make sure that you have updated your /etc/rc files which have different ldconfig invocations for elf and aout. Otherwise things like X will stop working with messages about being unable to find library files. The mergemaster utility in ports/sysutils/mergemaster helps to keep critical files like this in sync, and its use is recommended.

19990104 Information about ELF day (see 19981230) can be found in
http://www.freebsd.org/~peter/elfday.html
about the upcoming change, its motivations and instructions for doing the upgrade.
19981230 You should install new bootblocks now. The ELF kernel will become default soon. In addition, you'll need to upgrade your userland programs to ELF before then as well. Use make aout-to-elf to upgrade your userland programs (old a.out programs in, for example, /usr/local/bin will continue to work, even after the upgrade). See src/Makefile for more details.
19981224 The old wcd driver has been deleted from the kernel. The driver that replaces it is named acd. You'll need to change this in your configuration files.

Failure to do this will result in "ATAPI CD-ROMs not configured" at boot time.

The floppy tape driver (ft) has been removed from the kernel, with no replacement driver.

19981202 New groups from 19981201 commented out of mtree, so they aren't strictly needed, but still a good idea to have.
19981201 New user/group added: bind. From src/etc/master.passwd and src/etc/group: 
		% grep  /usr/src/etc/group 
		bind:*:53:
		% grep  /usr/src/etc/master.passwd 
		tty:*:4:65533::0:0:Tty Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin
		kmem:*:5:65533::0:0:KMem Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin
		bind:*:53:53::0:0:Bind Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin
19981118 PAM integrated into the tree. Requires new /etc/pam.conf file to silence warnings from authentication programs (login, etc). See src/etc/pam.conf for a sample.

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