Subject: Re: Upgrading from 1.5.2 to -current?
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
List: port-sparc
Date: 04/12/2002 00:17:40
At 10:24 PM +0200 2002/04/11, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> in src/ you should have a file called BUIDLING. This should have all the
> infos.
I looked at that file. Maybe I need to read it again, but I just
did not really understand precisely what steps I should be following.
There's stuff in there on cross-compiling and a whole bunch of other
things, but I didn't see anything that looked like an obvious
procedure that I should follow.
I was hoping for something like:
1. Install NetBSD 1.5.2
2. Follow chapter 18.1 of "The NetBSD operating system:
a short guide", as available from
<http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/#netbsd-guide>
to download the full source of the operating system.
Note that, as of 1.5.2, the full sources require
~700MB of free disk space in /usr/src.
3. Type "cd /usr/src; make"
4. Before installing the new binaries, make and install
a new kernel image using the instructions available in
chapter XXX of the NetBSD Guide.
5. Type "cd /usr/src; make install"
6. Reboot the system.
Myself, I've gotten to the end of step 2, and I'm not really sure
if this is the script I should be following, or where the
instructions are for building a new kernel image using the new tools,
but before installing the binaries.
> Be carefull to not install new binaries before you have a new kernel running.
That is a part of the procedure which I was not previously aware
of, but which does make sense. Thanks!
--
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