Jon Paterson wrote:
>
> If these seem like trivial questions please do not flame me, I have never
> attempted to do this before and do not want to damage a working system!
>
> As far as I have researched I need to perform the following actions:
>
> 1 get the up to date source (using one of the cvs tools)
>
> 2. make buildworld
>
> 3. make installworld
>
> 4. run mergemaster.
>
> 5. rebuild kernel ???????
>
> 6. reboot (and pray!)
You need to read /usr/src/UPDATING. It will let you run an
installworld before you do a buildkernel but the section on updating
4.x to 4.x-stable suggests the sequence
make buildkernel KERNEL=YOUR_KERNEL
make installkernel KERNEL=YOUR_KERNEL
in between the buildworld and the installworld. YOUR_KERNEL is your
kernel config file. I don't have to boot to single user mode before I
run my installworld. That isn't always the case.
Kent
>
> is this correct or have I missed something out? I assume that the src from
> the updates are for the system only, and not any changes to any of the
> ports. Do I / can I keep the ports up to date also? or is this a bad idea?
>
> do I need to "clean" after the install to clear all the temporary files?
>
> thankyou for any advice you can offer.
>
> regards,
>
> Jon Paterson.
>
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