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Clarify UPDATING language: do buildworld before buildkernel, and

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do installkernel before installworld, rather than don't make world
before installkernel.

Pointed out by:	gad
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Robert Watson 2003-11-17 23:25:16 +00:00
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Notes: svn2git 2020-12-20 02:59:44 +00:00 
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@ -20,10 +20,10 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 5.x IS SLOW:
20031112:
The statfs structure has been updated with 64-bit fields to
allow accurate reporting of multi-terabyte filesystem
sizes. You should build and boot a new kernel BEFORE doing a
`make world' as the new kernel will know about binaries using
the old statfs structure, but an old kernel will not know
about the new system calls that support the new statfs
sizes. You should build world, then build and boot the new kernel
BEFORE doing a `installworld' as the new kernel will know about
binaries using the old statfs structure, but an old kernel will
not know about the new system calls that support the new statfs
structure.
Note that the backwards compatibility is only present when the
kernel is configured with the COMPAT_FREEBSD4 option. Since