Joseph Koshy
f27b1fce70
Add a section describing installing -current onto a dedicated partition
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from a 4-stable build environment.
Reviewed by: imp
2003-02-07 08:26:23 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
9db58771e0
20030128
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NODEVFS option has been removed and DEVFS thereby made standard.
This makes all references to MAKEDEV obsolete, and the should
be removed when convenient.
2003-01-29 07:14:16 +00:00
Max Khon
66ff0e67c4
hint.acpi.0.disable -> hint.acpi.0.disabled
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Submitted by: Vitaly Markitantov <vm@dics.com.ua>
2003-01-27 23:30:21 +00:00
Jake Burkholder
8d9b3f572c
Add a note about the ofwcons device name change.
2003-01-27 04:53:30 +00:00
Jeff Roberson
1c5efda5aa
- Add an entry about the new scheduler options.
2003-01-26 05:29:48 +00:00
Warner Losh
c9fdb80a1f
More wi info: adhoc means have reverted.
2003-01-17 07:54:27 +00:00
Warner Losh
9d1d64f5a6
wi now needs wlan.
2003-01-16 16:56:58 +00:00
Jens Schweikhardt
9d5abbddbf
Correct typos, mostly s/ a / an / where appropriate. Some whitespace cleanup,
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especially in troff files.
2003-01-01 18:49:04 +00:00
Alexander Kabaev
84cc83ef95
Add a word, lost in previos commit.
2002-12-22 07:08:14 +00:00
Alexander Kabaev
161dc364bd
Add note about GCC -fno-pcc-struct-return being default again. The
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breakage window was about 18 days long.
Submitted by: juli
Approved by: re (rwatson)
2002-12-22 07:00:45 +00:00
Martin Blapp
fb4c80619a
Change the name for the local unix-socket based protocol
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from "unix" back to "local". Add some compat stuff so both
ways work for some time.
Reviewed by: phk
Approved by: imp (UPDATING)
Requested by: iedowse, lukem@netbsd.org
2002-12-16 22:24:26 +00:00
Giorgos Keramidas
17d47eb38a
Add an entry for sparc64 users to warn them about potential problems
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with kernels & modules that are not in sync, after the latest upgrade
of binutils.
Reviewed by: tmm
Approved by: re (rwatson)
2002-12-06 13:19:35 +00:00
Warner Losh
bd79cf400b
OK, you can use the 4.x boot loader and boot blocks to load kernels, but
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I'm nervous about recommending it, so note it as a footnote only for now.
2002-10-30 20:11:07 +00:00
Bill Fenner
a445929407
The value of IPPROTO_DIVERT has changed.
2002-10-29 16:46:52 +00:00
Warner Losh
21c075eaf5
Add note: cvs checkout -P needed for fresh tree.
2002-10-28 21:33:10 +00:00
Warner Losh
d21258022e
MACHINE_ARCH is wrong here. It should be MACHINE
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Submitted by: nyan@ (Yoshihiro-san)
2002-10-27 06:31:37 +00:00
Warner Losh
c74fe6af7f
Mention the need to have COMPAT_FREEBSD4 in the kernel you use for the
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upgrade.
2002-10-27 04:48:31 +00:00
Warner Losh
b705ae1084
Note the scary messages that you see when mounting / and other things
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are expected and normal when you've booted a 5.0 kernel with a 4.x
userland.
2002-10-27 01:35:36 +00:00
Warner Losh
f643de42bb
State the stupidly obvious:
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If /tmp is on /, then blowing away its contents, as appropriate,
may get you enough space to do the installworld.
2002-10-26 22:55:43 +00:00
Warner Losh
5c195f592b
Note: 5.0 requires more space. If you don't have 30MB free on /, then
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you are going to get hurt badly if you try to do an update from
sources. Make a note of this. While 'experts' could install it in
less space, I think 30MB is a good number.
2002-10-26 22:50:31 +00:00
Warner Losh
63cb445e51
A simple make world is too dangerous for most upgrades. Instead, copy
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the updating from stable section, and remove the kludge-o-rounds that
are in there.
Sometimes make world is safe, sometimes not. Let's document the safe
way to deal.
2002-10-26 06:25:11 +00:00
Warner Losh
fc8c157fad
Note GEOM removal of the compatibility slice, and what you, the
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upgrader needs to do about it.
Also, greatly expand the the upgrading from -stable part of this file.
It appears that you need new boot blocks to ensure that the right
kernel is booted single user.
2002-10-26 06:21:00 +00:00
Andrew Gallatin
fd9e8bdaef
Document the (alpha only) "out of memory" and "PT_LOAD: too few segments"
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problems with the new groff and mention possible workarounds for people
buildworlding to current.
Reviewed by: ru (a slighly older version)
2002-10-24 18:41:02 +00:00
Warner Losh
f8a4c9012c
gcc 3.2
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rm -rf /usr/include/g++ needed to upgrade from 4.6
2002-09-03 06:13:43 +00:00
Jens Schweikhardt
c2248fa21b
Mention new termcap and TERM=xterm-color -> xterm issue.
2002-08-28 19:34:49 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
0d533e437d
Document the effect of contrib/gcc/c-lex.c,v 1.2 commit.
2002-08-15 08:51:24 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
33c1de7d1f
Ignore -C, -p, and -S options of install(1) when used with the -d
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option. Warn about COPY being phased out. Restore the old method
of always comparing before installing: INSTALL="install -C".
Requested by: bde
2002-07-29 08:51:04 +00:00
Julian Elischer
2b877fac01
Approved by: imp@freebsd.org
2002-07-03 04:23:38 +00:00
Warner Losh
06596d3769
Add a note to UPDATING saying that now is a bad time to update due
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to some KSE/libc_r interaction.
Submitted by: julian
2002-07-01 07:25:05 +00:00
Robert Watson
4b683fb224
Slightly modify the UPDATING text to indicate that -gstabs+ is a gcc
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flag to replace -g. This works around slight obtuseness in the developer.
(me :-).
2002-06-05 20:21:40 +00:00
David E. O'Brien
f50caf6ff4
Document -gstabs+
2002-06-04 18:10:54 +00:00
Robert Watson
6d362db996
Remove comment about NO_WERROR, since it no longer applies.
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Pointed out by: silby
2002-06-03 00:21:13 +00:00
Robert Watson
dea5eb2c63
Add a note that NO_WERROR is a good idea for the time being due to the
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compiler upgrade. People still seem to be tripping over this.
2002-05-20 13:06:24 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
be1d673d24
Check that kldxref(8) exists before running it.
2002-05-14 07:49:12 +00:00
Jacques Vidrine
95ba43303b
Turn on the set-user-ID bit for k5su if ENABLE_SUID_K5SU is defined.
2002-05-12 03:17:31 +00:00
David E. O'Brien
a81da3c933
Note potential cvs update problem in contrib/gcc.
2002-05-10 22:56:59 +00:00
Dima Dorfman
ae20a1b867
Use hw.ata.ata_dma instead of hw.atamodes, which doesn't exist in anymore.
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Reviewed by: maxim
2002-05-06 09:40:52 +00:00
Jacques Vidrine
528a0ef575
Note change for FreeBSD-SA-02:23.stdio.
2002-04-25 14:42:26 +00:00
Warner Losh
f6a0ef018c
Warnings about single user and kldxref
2002-04-25 02:14:48 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
8f1e435871
Mention the UCONSOLE kernel option removal.
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Prompted by: sheldonh
2002-04-19 11:37:34 +00:00
Warner Losh
835284be37
Do some minor editing of the entires (the date of the smmsp user
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wasn't April 4, but Feb 17th). Update the updating proceedure to use
the new mergemaster -p flag. Add a footnote telling users how to cope
if their mergemaster doesn't have a -p flag.
2002-04-19 04:22:35 +00:00
Warner Losh
9698f2c06e
Update to note my dropping the strong lock on this file.
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Clarify what my last note about USERCONFIG really means and how to
know if it is fixed.
2002-04-11 05:45:17 +00:00
Warner Losh
bbcc514948
Note date of USERCONFIG's real death
2002-04-11 01:39:16 +00:00
Gregory Neil Shapiro
85aa5a2e0a
Add two items that have come up in the mailing lists regarding the
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sendmail import.
Approved by: imp
2002-04-05 07:42:42 +00:00
Warner Losh
2292c02e95
Note comment about DP-1
2002-03-18 04:52:24 +00:00
Warner Losh
69f7bcf319
PLASTER A WARNING THAT TELLS PEOPLE THAT CURRENT HAS DEBUGGING FEATURES
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TURNED ON.
Submitted by: rwatson
Suggest -DNO_WERROR unless you are a developer when building a kernel.
Submitted by: mike
2002-02-28 05:31:02 +00:00
Warner Losh
8f35c49373
Add notes about sendmail update from gshapiro.
2002-02-18 06:29:17 +00:00
Warner Losh
514318a813
Add info about sppp and fd changes in December to current.
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Submitted by: joerg
2002-01-27 07:00:25 +00:00
Warner Losh
1a33dba740
Add note about openssh 2.9 changing some defaults
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Submitted by: Thomas.Quinot@Cuivre.FR.EU.ORG
PR: 28724
2002-01-27 06:50:09 +00:00
Warner Losh
5ebbf43ef7
Add only once to the tip workaround.
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Submitted by: ru
2002-01-27 06:36:13 +00:00