Addition: you may want to consider carefully the ramifications of
remaking all the devices while logged in from remote, and outline a
method, I didnt need to I found out because this box was installed after
jan 2000.
Quoting Adriel Ickler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Comments: I wanna share my results for those who want to do this via
> remote.
>
> I slightly modified the procedure below for upgrading a box several
> hundred miles away, where single user mode means a long distance phone
> call.
>
> cvsup to current
> make buildworld
> make buildkernel
> make installkernel
> - change - I just rebooted normally, the network came up fine, if you
> have any special kernel needs, make sure you have di lines in
> /boot/kernel.conf (i.e. your system hangs when trying to detect a
> device) at this point you are very safe, Its just a new kernel, if it
> doesnt work, just load from the old one and give up or tweak, or
> whatever.
> make -DNOINFO installworld
> make installworld
> ok, here is where I discovered something nobody told me about.
> 4.0 moved me from DES to MD5. the effect was that none of the passwords
> worked. luckily I was logged in as root already, and only had 4 accts, I
> just ran the passwd command and reset them. if its a nightmare to move
> your accounts, and/or you want to keep DES, I have been told that adding
> the line "auth_default = des" in /etc/auth.conf will keep you on
> DES.
> (I didnt read the dev changes till after I did this, so it would prob be
> better to do it here.)
> reboot
> now after the reboot, I had a weird error that nobody has mentioned as
> far as I can see. Whenever I tried to make in /usr/ports I would get an
> error on two libraries:
> /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1, /usr/lib/libm.so.2
>
> after that everything was pretty sane, little cleanups, but nothing
> really scary.
>
> I dont know if I recommend this or not, but I hope anyone who tries it
> will learn from my experience and have a smoother ride ;)
>
> so, first solution I can think of is, copy the files from an existing
> current box". /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1 wouldnt let me overwrite it,
> even as root, but /usr/lib/libm.so.2 did, amazingly enough it only took
> the libm replacement.
>
> Quoting Eugene M. Kim ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, John Baldwin wrote:
> >
> > | You need a -current kernel for installworld to work. In fact,
> > | if you aren't running a -current kernel installworld will blow
> > | up on your machine. Try this instead:
> > |
> > | - cvsup -current
> > | - make buildworld
> > | - make buildkernel
> > | - make installkernel
> >
> > - backup /dev to /dev.orig
> > - mkdir /dev
> > - copy /usr/src/etc/MAKEDEV* into /dev
> > - remake all devices in /dev (don't forget to make the disk slice
> > entries separately)
> >
> > | - reboot into single user mode
> > | - make -DNOINFO installworld
> > | - make installworld
> > | - merge over /etc changes, etc.
> > | - reboot
> >
> > --
> > Eugene M. Kim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > "Is your music unpopular? Make it popular; make music
> > which people like, or make people who like your music."
> >
> >
> >
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