booking new kernel (5.2) in old userland (5.1) to multiuser?

Jev jev at ecad.org
Tue Jan 13 16:36:13 PST 2004


Just for everyones information.

My upgrade went as smooth as it could have.

Simply
make buildworld
make buildkernel KERNCONF=xxx
make installkernel KERNCONF=xxx
mergmaster -p	(not reguired between 5.1 and 5.2)
reboot
make installworld
mergemaster
reboot

Bobs your uncle :)

David Wolfskill wrote:
> I *think* that Kirk's statfs changes happened between 5.1 & 5.2; assuming
> that's the case, read /usr/src/UPDATING very carefully and follow the
> instructions very carefully.
> 
> I also recall that at one point, "make installworld" didn't work, because
> /lib and /libexec were not populated before /bin; in that case, I found
> that:
> 
> 	cd /usr/src/libexec && make install
> 	cd /usr/src/lib && make install
> 
> allowed "make installworld" to finish normally.
> 
> Peace,
> david



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