who has experience about updating freebsd from 4.11 to 5.x

liguoqiang(126) liguoqiang_0121 at 126.com
Tue Sep 6 18:29:45 PDT 2005


thanks all.
I have update my system well.  Although i use freeBSD no long time i have got many more helps from the mail-list. 
thanks all again.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kurt Jaeger" <pi at c0mplx.org>
To: "liguoqiang(126)" <liguoqiang_0121 at 126.com>
Cc: <freebsd-stable at freebsd.org>
Sent: Monday, September 05, 2005 9:56 PM
Subject: Re: who has experience about updating freebsd from 4.11 to 5.x


> Hi!
> 
> >  I update my freebsd ver 4.11 by cvsup src-all tree.
> >  It's successfully as below:
> >      make buildworld 
> >      make buildkernel
> >      make installkernel
> > But some errors appear when i make installworld:
> 
> Our process for this type of upgrade is:
> 
> cd /usr/src
> cvsup -L 2 -g /root/stable-supfile
> # anlegen der neu notwendigen accounts
> mergemaster -p
> make buildworld; make buildkernel
> cp sys/i386/conf/GENERIC.hints /boot/device.hints
> make installkernel
> cd /usr/src/sys/boot
> make STRIP="" install
> shutdown -r now
> # reboot into single-user
> boot -s
> fsck -p
> mount -uw /
> mount -at ufs
> # if system clock is localtime instead of UTC:
> adjkerntz -i
> rm -rf /usr/include/g++
> cd /usr/src
> make installworld
> mergemaster -i
> # remove leftovers from bind8
> rm /usr/bin/dnskeygen /usr/bin/dnsquery
> rm /usr/libexec/named-xfer
> rm /usr/sbin/named.restart /usr/sbin/ndc
> rm /usr/sbin/nslookup /usr/sbin/nsupdate
> # done, reboot
> shutdown -r now
> 
> Works fine.
> 
> -- 
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