Newbie Question About System Update
Michael C. Shultz
ringworm01 at gmail.com
Mon Apr 18 17:02:26 PDT 2005
On Monday 18 April 2005 04:51 pm, Jim Campbell wrote:
> I've been away from *NIX a few years. I have been playing with FreeBSD
> for a week or so now with mixed results. I am using release 4.11
> because for some reason 5.3 has problems seeing my hard drives. 4.11,
> Red Hat Linux and NetBSD have no such trouble.
>
> This afternoon I used the "Updating Sources with CVSup" in the FreeBSD
> Cheat Sheets and everything worked as advertized. I believe that it
> advised against using "make world" and suggested that I use "19.4.1 The
> Canonical Way to Update Your System" in the Handbook. I went through
> the following steps with no problem:
>
> # make buildworld
> # make installworld
> # mergemaster
> # reboot
This is how I do it:
> # make buildworld
> # make buildkernel
> # make installkernel
> # reboot
> # make installworld
> # mergemaster
> # reboot
-Mike
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