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262 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Warner Losh
2b41163c14 First cut at new boot loader.
Rip it to shreds so that it is better, please :-)
2000-09-06 18:02:03 +00:00
Warner Losh
c22a309c55 Add a note about /etc/aliases moving /etc/mail/aliases and the problems
that causes in updating.

Submitted by: Robert Watson

[[ NB: marko and I are trying an experiment: he'll try to fix typos
   quickly in UPDATING, while I concentrate on content. ]]
2000-09-04 21:09:01 +00:00
Mark Ovens
f699bbbbe4 Correct minor typos
PR:		21022
Submitted by:	Daniel S. Lewart <d-lewart@uiuc.edu>
2000-09-04 16:59:32 +00:00
Warner Losh
a24eff5315 Add note about avoiding -j when following the upgrade path. It isn't
strictly verboten, just a recommendation to avoid problems.
Add note about LINT being built from NOTES.
2000-09-04 03:18:01 +00:00
Warner Losh
9c1a744422 Expand information about device.hints. Add information in the
cookbook section about needing to copy GENERIC.hints to
/boot/device.hints, as well as a footnote about exceptions to this
rule.

Partially suggested by: obrien
2000-08-29 06:35:46 +00:00
Warner Losh
fdb9f54dde /boot/device.hints is now required. 2000-08-28 03:54:51 +00:00
Warner Losh
5da0d091fa New suidperl instructions. 2000-08-13 02:19:13 +00:00
Warner Losh
8f250aa713 Add excellent entry written by gshaprio for his import of Sendmail
8.11.0 into the tree.  Good job Gregory!

Submitted by: Gregory Neil Shapiro <gshapiro@freebsd.org>
2000-08-12 22:47:21 +00:00
Warner Losh
71c38472de Add stuff:
o BUILD_SUIDPERL replaces NOSUIDPERL
o New /etc/rc.conf settings for secure networking may require changes
  to those upgrading.
o nullfs in loader.conf.
2000-08-10 23:16:32 +00:00
Warner Losh
ba01eb206c o Move to recommending the {build,install}kernel targets for updating from
older versions of FreeBSD.
o Continue to document the old way of doing it with a warning stating if that
  doesn't work, to do the {build,install}kernel thing.
o minor wordsmithing on what a make world really is.
2000-08-10 05:14:31 +00:00
Warner Losh
134d2e86de Add a reminder note to people to disable third party modules at the
right place in the upgrade proceedure so that they don't get burned by
a crash on reboot.
2000-08-10 05:03:49 +00:00
Warner Losh
bed5c5ffb0 Type in FreeBSD capitalization 2000-08-06 22:18:39 +00:00
Warner Losh
1dece4a9c5 Add entry on the installkernel changes as well as more grumpy notes
about needing to be on -current to track -current.  Tweak the 4.0 ->
4.x version stuff.
2000-08-06 22:16:34 +00:00
Warner Losh
c6dd14300f typos from asmodai, one important for device.hints 2000-07-27 20:49:24 +00:00
Warner Losh
f54a3542ef alex@big.endian.de (Alexander Langer) noticed that I point at LINT,
which no longer exists.  Updating the entry accordingly.
2000-07-19 18:35:05 +00:00
Warner Losh
409e887c85 Take jdp's excellent message to -current about the internat crypto
files and put it in my freebsd web area.  Rewrite the entry in
UPDATING to point to it the message and hopefully not confuse people
like the old one did.
2000-07-16 06:00:40 +00:00
Warner Losh
673d13f2db Two entries:
o Mark M has updated the random device to harvest entropy.  Put
	  instructions to tell people how to cope.
	o add entry about phk's malloc changes.
2000-07-13 05:35:31 +00:00
Warner Losh
2f961bc842 Add warning about needing to set SYSDIR to build new kernels after
July 4th due to the new sys/modules/sound/drivers/* being added to the
tree.  You will need to do this until you do a make installworld with
my bsd.kmod.mk change.
2000-07-07 05:17:49 +00:00
Warner Losh
e98e26cd69 Add information on libftpio version backoff. Also mention the crypto
collection changes.
2000-07-06 23:04:55 +00:00
Warner Losh
c373950eff o rc.d now use start/stop, and some scripts may produce warnings.
o NOTES replaces LINT.  Make a note of it in an older entry.
2000-07-06 22:51:16 +00:00
Warner Losh
27dc3a2b96 Note des' libfetch/fetch changes.
Clarify requirements for dev random, et al, from markm's commit.

Initial diffs for the latter by: archie
2000-06-30 17:19:07 +00:00
Warner Losh
b8c215accd Added a dire sounding note about how crypto is required to build the
system.  Well, not really required if you know what you are doing, but
there's enough people that don't fit into this class that are getting
burned now that we need to say it is required.  The actual message
says that one should treat it as if it was required to try to be
weasilly for the nitpickers amoung us :-)Killed by signal 2.
2000-06-29 00:34:54 +00:00
Warner Losh
7b9907197a Add warning about /dev/random disconnecting entropy for a few days while
the code is reworked.
2000-06-26 05:54:02 +00:00
Warner Losh
81e54c5014 Add softupdate change info. 2000-06-25 08:26:38 +00:00
Daniel Baker
2a2f33fb7a Fix typo in the config file update procedure URL and typo in preceding
sentence.
2000-06-22 07:28:44 +00:00
Warner Losh
39943833e9 bde says we don't need to note in passing the locore stuff.
Scott Flatman <sf@arcanet.com> sent in a step by step buide to updating
the config file.  since he was first, he gets his name in lights :-)
2000-06-22 02:23:52 +00:00
Warner Losh
d4c3159a33 Missed one:
Per grog's suggestion, mention bde's symbol change to the kernel.  It
likely isn't a big deal, but should be noted in passing.
2000-06-21 07:09:22 +00:00
Warner Losh
290f9ad8cf I felt guilty:
o add note about binutils 2.10 fixing the problems noted on 20000522.
	o Add some very brief text to the '612 entry on the config changes.
	  A better howto would be warmly added to the file.
2000-06-21 07:06:38 +00:00
Warner Losh
f75f65bbe0 Forgot about the bootblocks. 2000-06-21 07:01:33 +00:00
Warner Losh
90fb634625 Note phk's axing of wd compat devices in -current. 2000-06-21 06:59:35 +00:00
Warner Losh
ba26da8e1f Warn about config's bout with Peter's big axe 2000-06-14 15:42:50 +00:00
Warner Losh
d9583a0008 Add note about make.conf's J finding bugs in ld and not to use it for
the moment.
2000-05-29 01:49:56 +00:00
Warner Losh
d65850eb5f Add entry for new binutils that are needed to properly rebuild the
kernel.
2000-05-27 21:20:07 +00:00
Warner Losh
8039cede53 All the latest big changes in -current that I could find:
mod depends
	modules out of makeworld
	ethernet drivers
	alpha boot bloocks
Maybe a few others
2000-05-16 07:48:18 +00:00
Warner Losh
2b8dd5f402 o Make note of brandelf change (obrien)
o Make the ata warning less dire based on more experience.  It seems that marginal
  disks cause more problems than that chipset singled out. (sos)
2000-05-04 08:02:11 +00:00
Warner Losh
8d9f1945b9 Add information about the dangarous apollo MPV3 chipset. Several
people have suggested the workaround to me (use only PIO mode) and
I've not seend a message saying ths was fixed.  I'll removed the bold
warning stars after the issue is corrected.
2000-04-04 17:14:18 +00:00
Warner Losh
6d23c3828e Normally I don't put entries that should have been made months ago
into UPDATING.  However, in this case I'm making an exception.  I'm
adding a recommendation that people update their boot blocks.  Old
boot blocks will cause a system to become unbootable if you have
removed /dev/{,r}wd*.

Submitted by: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@freebsd.org>
2000-03-28 06:59:46 +00:00
Warner Losh
f8ab1dd6f0 Add entry about the isa/pci shim issue. 2000-03-23 05:57:10 +00:00
Warner Losh
19cada7779 Massive gut. We're not into 5.0 so remove all 4.x entries from this
file and start over.

Also note that we're in the traditional whack-a-ball kernel model/api
reorg for 5.0 and that one needs to be extra careful about making sure
models and kernels are in sync.
2000-03-21 19:19:47 +00:00
Warner Losh
ba228352bb Add blurb about perl modules needing recompiling. 2000-03-09 07:34:46 +00:00
Warner Losh
12cc495a7c Add openssh and api changes. 2000-03-07 04:35:24 +00:00
Warner Losh
9e5fefae0f Slightly improved 3.x -> current instructions. 2000-02-23 05:51:02 +00:00
Warner Losh
3645fc1c45 Add 3.x -> 4.0 upgrade instructions
Make it plainer the kernel rebuild required point.

I had thought these changes were already in.
2000-02-22 01:50:25 +00:00
Warner Losh
92c9724fe4 Enshrine my own personal tantrum to the whole xinstall fiasco.
Inspired by: reading too much -current and updating my laptop accross
the great divide.
2000-02-07 05:14:16 +00:00
Warner Losh
93e7bcc921 Fix details of libipsec, per Jim Bloom. 2000-02-06 04:31:15 +00:00
Warner Losh
759f0aef12 Add libipsec shared version regression.
Add section on updating from 3.x
Yet another attempt to explain xinstall problems
Fix typos
2000-02-06 04:07:11 +00:00
Warner Losh
16de1a07c2 Add entries for recent ipv6 api interface alignment (from shin@freebsd.org)
Clarify xinstall instructions from bde
2000-02-02 05:35:31 +00:00
Warner Losh
dc0dbf5c9e Add a section at the end called COMMON ITEMS. This is where we'll put
those questions that come up all the time (eg, how do I build a
kernel).  This is intended to be a very brief reminder for people that
are basically clueful what the steps are to do these common things.
What it lacks in verbosity it makes up in terseness.
2000-01-30 23:15:21 +00:00
Warner Losh
37990f36bd Add info about burncd, c++ changes, the xinstall kludge as well as
correct the buidlworld typo every keeps teasing me about.

I didn't ask Jordan if this was OK, but figured it fell under the
documentation exception in his freeze mail.
2000-01-30 23:09:58 +00:00
Warner Losh
ee2ac3605f Add recent entries:
CAM version bump
	gnu texinfo
	pccardd/pccardc recompile to match kernel ioctls
2000-01-19 17:18:43 +00:00
Warner Losh
0a488c7596 Fix typos and talk about the controller -> device config file
changes.
2000-01-17 06:12:00 +00:00
Warner Losh
f6517190b7 Spell chown right.
Noticed by: Phil Jenvey and Mike Heffner
2000-01-09 05:12:25 +00:00
Warner Losh
f3a0785b94 The happy, busy elves have been happily busy again:
sha-1 gone
	burncd (and ioctl interface changes)
	chown/chgrp moved back
2000-01-07 20:16:39 +00:00
Warner Losh
0a3f3aa25c Fix typos:
named->name:		hank@black-hole.com
	/etc/rc.conf -> /etc/rc	PR: docs/15664 Iiya Naumov

Added radius.conf format change from jdp
Added genassym change from geoff rehmet <geoff@is.co.za>

Yes.  I'm still very much the maintainer of this file in -current.
2000-01-06 18:19:35 +00:00
Warner Losh
5525aae621 Add import of ntpd 4.x
Add movement of /etc/sendmail.cf to /etc/mail/sendmail.cf
1999-12-19 23:51:50 +00:00
Warner Losh
fda36f2fa5 Add notes from recent HEADS UP messages:
o soren updated the ata driver.  Please use 1213 or newer if
	  you have problems with the old stuff.
	o Enshrine the night of bared axes against wd.  Strongly push
	  users to move to ata driver.
	o Alpha users need to recompile klds after 11/29.
	o Mention the sound driver bridge code commit of 11/22.
	o change examples in 1205 entry from wd to ad.
	o Talk about new dc driver replacing all of the drivers that
	  Bill Paul has ever written.[*]

Corrections to these entries welcome.

[*] Well, at least those based on tulip clones...
1999-12-13 17:55:23 +00:00
Warner Losh
eeef0dd1b4 "raw" -> "block" Block devices have been what are now gone, not "raw"
devices.

Submitted by: David O'Brian
1999-12-06 22:42:01 +00:00
Warner Losh
a2e7fb9f68 bad144 elimination
bdev removal and its required actions (MAKEDEV)
sd -> da
1999-12-06 04:21:50 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
e306923fc0 Add entry about updating of /dev being desirable. 1999-12-05 18:55:53 +00:00
Warner Losh
7a92b31caa Add poul's md information, in abbreviated form, to the UPDATING file. 1999-11-26 20:38:36 +00:00
Warner Losh
63f52da783 Add note about how hardwiring ep0 will not likely work.
Also correct a small spelling nit from Bill Fumerola.
1999-11-26 06:36:13 +00:00
Bill Fumerola
78bcb44a9d Spelling fix. 1999-11-19 02:16:26 +00:00
Warner Losh
1a50e0c7fe gcc 2.95.2 1999-11-17 18:06:56 +00:00
Chris Costello
20d1019b71 Fix a typo: `maintain compatible'' -> `maintain compatibility'' 1999-10-23 18:15:14 +00:00
Warner Losh
25c3f405b5 New pccard kernel config requirement 1999-10-15 17:34:56 +00:00
Warner Losh
73c86a1fde Sort by date, reindent sigset_t entry 1999-09-30 14:54:48 +00:00
Warner Losh
60dbe536ac Fix typo in november
Add signal breakage

**** NEW KERNEL NEEDED FOR MAKE WORLD ****
1999-09-29 22:29:15 +00:00
Warner Losh
5f83e348d8 controller miibus0 is now needed.
Also adjust previous entry to be terminated by a blank line.
1999-09-08 18:34:31 +00:00
Nick Hibma
d98069654d Move /var/cron/log to /var/log/cron 1999-09-06 20:10:27 +00:00
Warner Losh
30e90e8bc0 Forgot Peter's Id->FreeBSD change as well as tn3270 being removed from
the base system and added as a port.
1999-08-31 17:07:14 +00:00
Warner Losh
f8a59eae48 Add blurb Jonathan Lemmon provided about the new TCP timer values. I
didn't document the couple day window when the units were in terms of
ticks rather than ms.

Also add note about libreadline major version retrograde motion.
1999-08-31 17:01:34 +00:00
Peter Wemm
97d92980a9 $Id$ -> $FreeBSD$ 1999-08-28 01:35:59 +00:00
Warner Losh
882984b380 Add ipfw recompile and bpfilter -> bpf changes 1999-08-01 18:58:45 +00:00
Warner Losh
7eedd934c9 Note need to recompile pccardd with latest kernel. 1999-08-01 18:19:03 +00:00
Warner Losh
95d18cfc2e Spelling nits 1999-07-07 04:28:48 +00:00
Warner Losh
e5bd655a0c Latest updating changes for softupdates, inetd and newsysconfig. 1999-07-03 22:15:43 +00:00
Warner Losh
ed478e7c82 Compaq smart raid 1999-06-24 04:20:37 +00:00
Warner Losh
6ae429ca7e Ooops. Forgot about kernel config requirement. 1999-06-23 06:39:07 +00:00
Warner Losh
075eeff2b4 Add latest syscons cleanup. 1999-06-23 05:51:37 +00:00
Warner Losh
a883e9d311 Add ipfw binary breakage, as well as inetd updates. 1999-06-20 09:56:32 +00:00
Warner Losh
07b725397b Add update on the status of new bus.
Add libcam ABI change warning.
1999-05-10 05:34:32 +00:00
Warner Losh
09fcf3f9ea Add two recent developments:
pccard is busted
	The cool new SMP stuff
1999-04-28 05:18:46 +00:00
Warner Losh
ea31d04d40 Add entry for newbus. It is rather long, but lots of nits can shoot
people with this upgrade.  Lemme know what you think, or any
corrections that should be made to it.

Corrected a few typos based on submissions from various people.

Add note that make aout-to-elf is currently broken and what to do to
work around it.  This is implied by make -DWANT_AOUT being broken, but
that isn't obvious to many people.
1999-04-21 06:57:35 +00:00
Warner Losh
d24adca851 Clarify the current state of cc -aout:
Compiling -g sometimes doesn't work (from Bruce)
	libgcc_r won't build (Jos Backus)
Also mention that make -j n world is working again
1999-04-15 04:36:45 +00:00
Warner Losh
d5ca06364c Note that cc -aout has been broken for a while and a reminder to
recompile now that it has been fixed.

Submitted by: Peter Wemm
1999-04-13 06:10:53 +00:00
Masafumi Max NAKANE
420d47446f Typo fix, src/sys/gnu/usr.bin/cc -> src/gnu/usr.bin/cc. 1999-04-12 16:22:15 +00:00
Warner Losh
1f692d4094 Ooops. Forgot C++ ABI major version bump (aka breakage). 1999-04-09 06:34:00 +00:00
Warner Losh
ff5e1f793a In reading -current, I noticed I had overlooked the NOAOUT -> WANT_AOUT
change, which deserves a mention here.
1999-04-09 06:31:00 +00:00
Warner Losh
8172568955 Added a whole lot of information on upgrading with egcs and the common
problems discussed in -current up through approx april 7th.  Those
more in the know please read these changes and send me corrections.
I've only hit a few of the cases, not all of them, so my reporting is
second hand at best.
1999-04-09 06:17:37 +00:00
Warner Losh
fe9af9539b Add pointer sys/boot/README for new boot system (this should be in a
man page, but I take what I can get)
Submitted by: chuckr

Add warning that vn can't be a loadable module for a while
Submitted by: dillon

Add name change for old atapi cd driver
Submitted by: sos
1999-03-18 05:39:45 +00:00
Warner Losh
ce32355fda Mention new loader.rc. Point people at the updated man pages for more
details.
1999-03-10 06:21:28 +00:00
Warner Losh
f8c77507cc Note struct proc size change from Mark Newton. 1999-02-27 03:14:22 +00:00
Warner Losh
7dd38e558a Catch up with the past week:
Add better text for the ppbus changes
	Add note about libdevstat changing forcing a recompile of some
	things in the tree as well as ports that use devstat.

Thanks to those people that used HEADS UP in their message.  Large,
rabid mammals to those that wanted to beat the /etc/rc* horse with the
phrase "heads up" in the subject line.
1999-02-17 05:32:40 +00:00
Warner Losh
0edeb9e7d1 nlpt -> lpt changes. Point at the man page, but refrain from
suggesting course of action if man page proves unhelpful.
1999-02-15 08:09:07 +00:00
Warner Losh
1fc1a0dc40 lpt -> nlpt and ppbus due to Dag's changes.
Submitted by: Joseph Koshy <jkoshy@FreeBSD.ORG>

P.S.  Forgive the delay on committing this.  I've been out of town at
a funeral until just a few minutes ago.
1999-02-14 05:18:35 +00:00
Warner Losh
9a3105ee26 o Add info about Julian's Linux Threads checkin (one of these
days I'm going to write a make kvm top level target).
	o Add warning about the
	  short lived boot block breakage and briefly what to do to
	  fix it.
1999-01-26 03:13:22 +00:00
Warner Losh
3652181c67 Nits. 1999-01-21 20:16:24 +00:00
Warner Losh
8cd37f69fd Add notes about:
vinum changes
	Matt Dillon's massive changes to vm_*.c
	The great RELENG_3 branch event
1999-01-21 20:13:41 +00:00
Warner Losh
ad56ea87a1 Add note about the need to reconfigure kernel for some new syscons
cahnges that kazu-san has committed, culled from his HEADS UP message
to -current.
1999-01-19 21:04:22 +00:00
Warner Losh
7dafbc29e9 Remove stray </a> html markers left in last commit.
Submitted by: "Philippe Charnier" <charnier@xp11.frmug.org>
1999-01-17 17:39:32 +00:00
Warner Losh
571998067e After much negative feedback, go back to plain ASCII for this file. 1999-01-14 05:59:52 +00:00
Warner Losh
9857e58226 Convert to HTML. Verified to work on Netscape 4.5 and Netscape
3.something.  We were getting a lot of URL links in this file and it
seemed like a good idea to convert this file to html so people can
follow them easily.

This does not use the doc tools to generate.  I'm doing it all by hand
at the moment.
1999-01-12 20:11:29 +00:00
Warner Losh
a85c0f554d Add notes about the new console system and a pointer to the changes
required by it.

Submitted by: Kazutaka YOKOTA (with minor edits by me)
1999-01-11 09:07:18 +00:00
Warner Losh
0061cc0461 Add pointer to mergemaster.
Submitted by: Jaye Mathisen <mrcpu@internetcds.com>

Also minor formatting nits.
1999-01-06 19:35:46 +00:00
Warner Losh
db23c94fff Add Robert Nordier's boot block URL. 1999-01-06 07:12:41 +00:00
Warner Losh
9ba54ae095 More Elven advice:
Update /etc/rc* if you are going to run a system with aout
libraries, otherwise ldconfig won't know what to do and all dynamic
aout binaries will fail.
1999-01-06 07:06:38 +00:00
Warner Losh
355edc3e75 On Dec 24 the wcd driver was removed. The new driver is acd. Make a
note of this in the updating file.  Put it under the 19981224 date
rather than today's date, since that was when the change was.

Submitted by: Gregory Bond <gnb@itga.com.au>

Also added note about floppy tape driver.  Didn't add note about
voxware or pcvt as they have been restored to the kernel.
1999-01-05 07:45:10 +00:00
Warner Losh
2c558794ca Add a poitner to Peter's page on the ELF migration day. This is the
day when the elves sail accross the sea to a new home, which happens
to be in your computer.  They will sing glorious songs for the Eldar
days.  You machine will shun the darkness that is upon the world.

Errrm, well actually you won't even notice...

Submitted by: peter
Appologies to: tokien
1999-01-05 05:46:37 +00:00
Warner Losh
e363c17b98 Added notes about upcoming uid/gid mta for the postfix integration.
Suggested by: peter

Also reworked the 981230 section in light of a better understanding of
what is in the pipeline.
1998-12-31 08:01:12 +00:00
Warner Losh
d5513f530b Add impending flag day for ELF. Make notes about elf userland and elf
kernel forced migration happening soon.

While still incomplete, and there may be showstoppers along the way,
the advise given here is not incorrect.

Submitted indirectly by: jdk, peter wemm
1998-12-31 06:20:01 +00:00
Warner Losh
ab308df62c Added new users/group that Matt Dillan added. While not strictly
necessary due to later changes to the tree, they may someday be
required.
1998-12-24 02:02:09 +00:00
Warner Losh
53dfde793f This file contains minimal instructions for the moderately clueful to
update their systems from prior versions of FreeBSD.  It is only for
November 18, 1998 and newer systems.  If you have an older system, you
are on your own.

I'll update this from time to time, and if it shows signs of bitrot
I'll kill it.
1998-12-15 00:24:32 +00:00