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From: rse@en.muc.de (Ralf S. Engelschall)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,en.lists.freebsd-hackers
Subject: Installation Experiences of FreeBSD 1.1.0(current)
Date: 23 Mar 1994 22:08:53 +0100
Organization: Engelschall (EN) Privat, Dachau/Munich, Germany
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Hello FreeBSD-community,
I'm currently running FreeBSD 1.0.2 on my main workstation and
to go a safe way I have cloned its whole system (nearly 1GB) to another
similar machine for upgrade testing.
I have upgraded this machine via a sup'ed current-src tree
as of 23.Mar.93.
Result:
1. The upgrade is a bit serious, it contains some pitfalls
As a base I have taken the upgrade instructions posted
a few weeks ago.
2. With the steps listed below, you can upgrade successfully
without falling into some of these pitfalls.
3. I hate the fact, that the spwd datebase again uses
another incompatible method. This is the reason I
still have not upgrading my main machine, because I have
a big (yes: big, exactly 134 packages containing
392 binaries!! -- all I need, from elm to tex) and a lot
of these will not work now, because of old static linking
with the old database code.
Guys, please: The same problem I had to overcome when
I upgraded 386bsd+pk0.2.4 to FreeBSD 1.0beta.
Why?! Why again the same shit? I hate such a thing...
*********************************************************
Can we re-introduce the old format which is compatible
with the one used in FreeBSD 1.0.2?
Please, please install the old db-code, please!!!!!!!!!
*********************************************************
I love FreeBSD and the work the core team and all
other hackers are doing, but I hate the guy who introduced
this new code.
OK, here is a working step-by-step-listing to upgrade:
I. Setup
PITFALL 1:
- save links inside your binary areas (I had /bin/mail ->
/opt/bin/mail, etc.) to prevent your own binaries to be
overwritten by the installation procedure.
PITFALL 2:
- add user man to your /etc/passwd to avoid failure
while upgrading (install!):
"man:*:9:9::0:0:Mister Man Pages:/usr/share/man:"
PITFALL 3:
- make sure your /usr/obj can hold up to 52 MB which
will arise while compiling.
II. Bootstrap to new kernel:
- $ cd /usr/src/share/mk
$ make depend all install
- $ cd /usr/src/include
$ make depend all install
- $ cd /usr/src/usr.bin/config
$ make depend all install
- $ cd /usr/src/sbin/mount_procfs
$ make depend all install
- /etc/fstab:
add entry for procfs to your fstab
"proc /proc procfs rw 0 0"
- $ cd /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/as
$ make depend all install
PITFALL 4:
yes, "as" is needed, because of code in the kernel, but
don't recompile and install "ld" because you are running a
old kernel at the moment which cannot execute binaries
produced with the new ld
- $ cd /usr/src/usr.bin/strip
$ make depend all install
- $ cd /sys/i386/conf
change "wd0" to "wdc0" and "fd0" to "fdc0" in your
kernel config file.
PITFALL 5:
Please take care that you don't have a "at 0xF..." in your
config. This will fail. I had
"config "386bsd" at 0xFE100000 root on sd0 swap on sd0"
and the kernel failed when rebooting.
Simply remove the "at 0xF...". The kernel loads correctly,
even with the old bootblocks.
- $ config <SYS>
$ cd /sys/compile/<SYS>
change the LDFLAGS "-Z" to "-z" to avoid wrong linking, because
you currently linking with the old "ld".
$ make depend all
$ mv /386bsd /386bsd.o
$ cp 386bsd /386bsd
- $ shutdown -r now
III. Bootstrap to new Ld and new:
- cd /usr/src
make bootstrapld
IV. Recompile whole System:
PITFALL:
- Because the "install" used in "make world" reaches itself
in usr.bin/xinstall it will fail due to the new db code
it is linked with and the old database.
$ cd /usr/src/usr.bin/xinstall
$ make depend all install
$ cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/pwd_mkdb
$ make depend all install
$ pwd_nkdb -p /etc/master.passwd
- $ cd /usr/src
$ make world
V. Reset to new system
- $ cd /usr/src/etc
$ mv /etc/rc /etc/rc.10
$ cp rc /etc/rc
- $ shutdown -r now
VI. Recompile new kernel under new kernel with new ld
- $ cd /sys/i386/conf
$ config <SYS>
$ cd /sys/compile/<SYS>
$ make depend all
$ mv /386bsd /386bsd.o
$ cp 386bsd /386bsd
- $ shutdown -r now
That's it! You are running FreeBSD 1.1.0(current)!
OK, only the system, most of your additional software
had to be relinked to the bad idea of another database
code. :-(
--
Ralf S. Engelschall
rse@en.muc.de