Re: howto for 3.4-STABLE - 4.0-CURRENT?
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." To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message -- Adriel Ickler Network Administrator - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Self Trading Securities - Voice: 512-263-2769 www.selftrading.com - Fax: 512-263-2141 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: howto for 3.4-STABLE - 4.0-CURRENT?
On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Adriel Ickler wrote: 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 This may screw you because some device nodes (e.g. ATA drives) have changed from 3.x to 4.x. You really need to mergemaster and re-MAKEDEV before rebooting, which requires you to install mknod as described in UPDATING. You should also do the rest of the upgrade in single-user mode (e.g. I forgot and tried to boot multi-user, and the system paniced at boot trying to load the linux KLD from /etc/rc.). 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. This is because you presumably didn't install the crypto sources and/or build them. 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. This won't do anything. Kris In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
RE: howto for 3.4-STABLE - 4.0-CURRENT?
On 11-Feb-00 Eugene M. Kim wrote: 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) Oh yeah, oops. :) My installworld script does that automatically, so I forgot about that step. | - 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." -- John Baldwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: howto for 3.4-STABLE - 4.0-CURRENT?
Greetings, I'm glad I saw Eugene's admendment first. My upgrade from 3.4-Stable to 4.0-Current went relatively okay yesterday. Thanks to both Eugene and John. I have to add that I need to manually install /sbin/mknod first too. If not, the "sh MAKEDEV all" won't work. I just went to src/sbin/mknod/ and did a make install there. I have to admit that the upgrade is pretty scary, and it involves a long downtime. Took me almost 5 hours from cvsup to the second reboot. Another 2 to "make world" again just to make sure. ( good tip, thanks ) Now rebuilding XFree86. And possibly a few other apps, like libgtop. Regards, /calvin lines with : are quotes from John Baldwin's email : : On 11-Feb-00 Eugene M. Kim wrote: : 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) : : Oh yeah, oops. :) My installworld script does that automatically, so : I forgot about that step. : : | - reboot into single user mode : | - make -DNOINFO installworld : | - make installworld : | - merge over /etc changes, etc. : | - reboot : To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
RE: howto for 3.4-STABLE - 4.0-CURRENT?
On 10-Feb-00 Jason J. Horton wrote: Any advice on upgrading a system from -STABLE to -CURRENT? Or would a standard "cvsup, make world, make kernel, reboot" do it? 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 - reboot into single user mode - make -DNOINFO installworld - make installworld - merge over /etc changes, etc. - reboot -- John Baldwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
