Re: Building a new system to current

1999-01-19 Thread Robert Nordier
Berend de Boer wrote:
> >> - update to the new bootblocks (done)
> >> - move to ELF kernel
> 
> > Installing the Jan 12th snapshopt gives you all of this already, and
> > no a.out cruft anywhere in sight.
> 
> Warning: make world doesn't upgrade the bootblocks as I just detected. I
> tried disklabel -B before but it complained that the device was busy (of
> course).

A "Device busy" is most likely due to specifying the full path of a
block device

disklabel -B /dev/da0s2a

The best approach is to specify just the drive

disklabel -B da0

or the slice, if you have more than one FreeBSD slice per drive

disklabel -B da0s3

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RE: Building a new system to current

1999-01-19 Thread Berend de Boer
>> - update to the new bootblocks (done)
>> - move to ELF kernel

> Installing the Jan 12th snapshopt gives you all of this already, and
> no a.out cruft anywhere in sight.

Warning: make world doesn't upgrade the bootblocks as I just detected. I
tried disklabel -B before but it complained that the device was busy (of
course).

Time to read the fallback section )-:

Groetjes,

Berend.


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Re: Building a new system to current

1999-01-19 Thread geoffr
Mike Smith writes :
> 
> Installing the Jan 12th snapshopt gives you all of this already, and no 
> a.out cruft anywhere in sight.
After a bit of thought - I think I will take this advice.
Blowing the achine I have installed away is quicker than
trying to juggle some of the recent changes!

geoff.

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Re: Building a new system to current

1999-01-19 Thread Mike Smith
> Hi,
>  
> I'm in the process of setting up a new FreeBSD-current
> box, starting with 3.0 Release, and moving to current.
> One question I have, is whether to go to the ELF kernel
> before I recompile the world with current source.
>  
>  
> My plan is as follows:
> - Load 3.0-RELEASE (done)
> - archive and delete all a.out tools (done)
> - update to the new bootblocks (done)
> - move to ELF kernel

Installing the Jan 12th snapshopt gives you all of this already, and no 
a.out cruft anywhere in sight.

> Apart from the comments in src/UPDATING,
> Peter Wemm's ELF day web page, and Robert
> Nordiers page on the new bootblocks, can anyone
> think of anything I should take into account?

Nothing immediately obvious - you've taken a slightly longer path but I 
think you'll end up in the right place.

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