On Sunday 23 November 2003 01:52 pm, Jeff Bogari wrote:
> Thanks in advance for the expert assistance:
>
> I'm *halfway* knowledgeable with my 4.7-RELEASE system. Built it on a
> 486/66 (16MB RAM) about a year ago. It's time to upgrade to 4.9-RELEASE.
> Here's what I've got so far:
>
> 1. Set the options in sysinstall to retrieve 4.9-RELEASE instead of
> 4.7-RELEASE
> 2. Used sysinstall to download the 4.9-RELEASE data via FTP
> 3. Tried to rebuild the kernel with the "first" process as documented
> 4. All steps proceed without error
> 5. Kernel size after last step is 0KB, so reboot fails. Fallback to
> kernel.old
> 6. GENERIC kernel installed with 4.9-RELEASE is kinda iffy - had to
> address several issues with 4.7 GENERIC to arrive at the kernel conf I am
> happy with under 4.7
> 7. Ran through kernel conf again to confirm no new gotchas and all
> required deviations for my setup were followed. Nothing looks fishy.
>
> Then:
> 1. Tried "second" procedure as documented
> 2. Failure at some point I don't recall due to physical memory or swap
> size
>
> How/why is this kernel ending up 0-sized with no error message?
>
> I played with the kernel protection as documented in the troubleshooting
> sections. Everything seems normal. Must I set kern_security level < 0
> before
> I begin?
>
> Or should I lean on the "second" process to make it work? The problem
> there being that I do not have a kernel that allows me to increase swap by
> creating a swap file >:(
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Jeff
>
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Here's what works for me:
I use cvsup to download the new sources and build from there. Download and
install this by doing the following:
#cd /usr/ports/net/cvsup
#make install
when done, create an text document called cvs-supfile in the /root directory:
#cd /root
#ee cvs-supfile
---document contents follow:---
*default host=cvsup3.freeBSD.org
*default base=/usr
*default prefix=/usr
*default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4
*default delete use-rel-suffix
*default compress
src-all
#ports-all
doc-all
---document contents above---
Now, you want to use that file to get the correct sources.
#cvsup -g -L2 /root/cvs-supfile
When this file is complete, change to the /usr/src directory and build all
your source files.
#cd /usr/src
#make clean; make world
This process on a 486 could take an hour or more. Just be aware of this.
Once this is done, you need to recompile your kernel. Change to the kernel
configuration directory.
#cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf
You may have edited this document or not, if not, just configure your GENERIC
kernel, otherwise change GENERIC in this example for the correct file:
#config GENERIC
You will get a message about your build directory is ../../compile/GENERIC or
what ever you substituted for GENERIC, and a message about not forgetting to
make depend:
#cd ../../compile/GENERIC
#make; make depend; make install
After this is done, reboot and you should be good to go!
HTH
--
Eric F Crist
President
AdTech Integrated Systems, Inc
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