Hi,

I did a manual install of 4.0 on a system running 2.1, but putting in a
4.0 kernel, then rebooting and unpacking all the tar balls. I then
cd /dev and ./MAKEDEV all. I then built a kernel and tried to build the
source tree. This is where I went wrong, I was trying to built it with
make build and it won't work that way now. Using ./build build works.
Although I still had a problem with installing libs that are older than
what is there. So, added NOCHECKVER=YES to my mk.conf.

I just wanted to make sure there was nothing that I missed in this. It has
been so long since I have done an install, I am just afraid it that I may
have forgotten something.

Thanks,
Al


> On Tue, 22 May 2007 chriswareham@chriswareham.demon.co.uk wrote:
>
> > Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 10:05:28 +0100
> > From: chriswareham@chriswareham.demon.co.uk
> > To: DataZap <az@datazap.net>, netbsd-help@netbsd.org
> > Subject: Re: upgrading to 4.0
> >
> > az@datazap.net wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I googled, but I wasn't able to find any documentation on how to upgrade
> > > to 4.0. Could someone either provide me a link or give some instructions
> > > on how to do this?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Al
> > >
> >
> > NetBSD 4.0 hasn't been released yet, but a beta version is available
> > from the FTP site and mirrors. Regular builds can be found at:
> >
> > ftp://ftp.<mirror>.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-4/
> >
> > Just replace "<mirror>" with a suitable country code (the complete
> > list of mirrors is at http://www.netbsd.org/mirrors/#ftp). Download
> > either an ISO image, or just the boot floppy images if you have a
> > floppy drive and can do a network install. A guide to burning a
> > bootable CD-ROM is at http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/bootcd.html,
> > and the INSTALL files describe in considerable detail how to start the
> > installation procedure.
> >
> > Although NetBSD 4.0 is still at the beta stage, I am using it on
> > several machines without any problems as are many others.
> >
> > Chris
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>