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Add a section describing installing -current onto a dedicated partition

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from a 4-stable build environment.

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jkoshy 2003-02-07 08:26:23 +00:00
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@ -1071,8 +1071,34 @@ COMMON ITEMS:
<reboot>
To upgrade from 4.x-stable to current
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To cross-install current onto a separate partition
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# In this approach we use a separate partition to hold
# current's root, 'usr', and 'var' directories. A partition
# holding "/", "/usr" and "/var" should be about 2GB in
# size.
<make sure you have good level 0 dumps>
<boot into -stable>
make buildworld
<maybe newfs current's root partition>
<mount current's root partition on directory ${CURRENT_ROOT}>
make installworld DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT}
make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
cp /usr/src/sys/${ARCH}/conf/GENERIC.hints \
${CURRENT_ROOT}/boot/device.hints # as needed
make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT}
cd /usr/src/etc; make distribution DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT} # if newfs'd
cp /etc/fstab ${CURRENT_ROOT}/etc/fstab # if newfs'd
<edit ${CURRENT_ROOT}/etc/fstab to mount "/" from the correct partition>
<reboot into current>
<do a "native" rebuild/install as described in the previous section>
<maybe install compatibility libraries from /usr/src/lib/compat>
<reboot>
To upgrade in-place from 4.x-stable to current
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# 5.x uses more space than 4.x. Also, the location of kernel
# modules has changed. If you are installing 5.0 onto a 4.x
# system, you'll need about 30MB of free disk space on your /