On 2005-03-22 13:54, Andrew Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is this a serious no-no?
>
> I see this breaks make installworld... :\ Complains about / being
> read-only, and naturally there is no way for me to remount it r/w with
> the system being up... :( And a rescue CD kinda defeats the object of
> rebuilding from source... :(
You are definitely doing something wrong. The root filesystem should be
mounted as read-write *before* you run installworld. The UPDATING file
in /usr/src contains the following:
To rebuild everything and install it on the current system.
-----------------------------------------------------------
# Note: sometimes if you are running current you gotta do more than
# is listed here if you are upgrading from a really old current.
<make sure you have good level 0 dumps>
<maybe fix /etc/fstab> [7]
make buildworld
make kernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
[1]
<reboot in single user> [3]
src/etc/rc.d/preseedrandom [10]
mergemaster -p [5]
make installworld
mergemaster [4]
<reboot>
A few paragraphs below...
[3] From the bootblocks, boot -s, and then do
fsck -p
mount -u /
mount -a
cd src
adjkerntz -i # if CMOS is wall time
Also, when doing a major release upgrade, it is required that
you boot into single user mode to do the installworld.
Note the ``mount -u'' and ``mount -a'' commands.
> So, would I do best to reinstall this machine with a proper FS layout
> before putting it into production?
A single, big root partition is definitely a "proper" FS layout, if
that's what you like doing.
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