On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 12:53:55PM -0500, Darren Henderson wrote: > > Upgrading from a fresh 4.4-RELEASE install to 5.0-CURRENT is remarkably > simple at this point in time, a couple of observations however... > Thanks. :-)
> I did have to do an installworld before I could install a new kernel. Trying > to do an installkernel first fails for lack of kldxref. Perhaps that could > be committed to STABLE to make going from STABLE to CURRENT a bit simpler if > it doesn't carry a huge number of dependencies? > Hmm, this shouldn't be a problem as of src/sys/modules/Makefile,v 1.202 failure to run kldxref(8) is not considered fatal, and kldxref is only run once after all modules are installed. > That and the lack of a /boot/device.hints file are the only complications > I saw while doing the upgrade. > You're supposed to read src/UPDATING when doing a source upgrade. It has all the necessary info on the topic under the ``To upgrade from 4.x-stable to current'' section, including the step to setup /boot/device.hints file. [snip] Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Oracle Developer/DBA, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sunbay Software AG, [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
