upgrade revision 1.2
1 1.2 chopps The upgrade to NetBSD 1.1 is a binary upgrade; it would be prohibitive 2 1.2 chopps to make users upgrade by compiling and installing the 1.1 sources, and 3 1.2 chopps it would be very difficult to even compile a set of instructions that 4 1.2 chopps allowed them to do so. Because of the various changes to the system, 5 1.2 chopps the largest being the 64-bit file size support and shared libraries, 6 1.2 chopps >>> just what are the major differences between 1.0 and 1.1?? 7 1.2 chopps it is impractical to upgrade by recompiling from the sources and 8 1.2 chopps installing. 9 1.2 chopps 10 1.2 chopps >>> no kernel-copy! 11 1.2 chopps To do the upgrade, you must have the appropriate kernel-copy floppy 12 1.2 chopps image on a disk, and the upgr-11.fs floppy image on another. You must 13 1.2 chopps >>> 14 1.2 chopps also have at least the "base11" binary distribution set available, 15 1.2 chopps so that you can upgrade with it, using one of the upgrade methods 16 1.2 chopps described above. Finally, you must have sufficient disk space 17 1.2 chopps available to install the new binaries. Since the old binaries are 18 1.2 chopps being overwritten in place, you only need space for the new binaries, 19 1.2 chopps which weren't previously on the system. If you have a few megabytes 20 1.2 chopps free on each of your root and /usr partitions, you should have enough 21 1.2 chopps space. 22 1.2 chopps 23 1.2 chopps Since upgrading involves replacing the kernel, and most of the system 24 1.2 chopps binaries, it has the potential to cause data loss. You are strongly 25 1.2 chopps advised to BACK UP ANY IMPORTANT DATA ON YOUR DISK, whether on the 26 1.2 chopps NetBSD partition or on another operating system's partition, before 27 1.2 chopps beginning the upgrade process. 28 1.2 chopps 29 1.2 chopps To upgrade your system, follow the following instructions: 30 1.2 chopps 31 1.2 chopps >>> transfer upgrade file system image to swap partition 32 1.2 chopps >>> should this be in the hard disk prep section? 33 1.2 chopps 34 1.2 chopps Boot your machine using of the appropriate kernel-copy floppy. 35 1.2 chopps When presented with the boot prompt (the prompt begins with 36 1.2 chopps "Boot" and ends with ":-"), hit return. 37 1.2 chopps 38 1.2 chopps While booting, you will probably see several warnings. You 39 1.2 chopps should be warned that no swap space is present, and that 40 1.2 chopps >>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 41 1.2 chopps init(8) cannot find /etc/rc. Do not be alarmed, these are 42 1.2 chopps >>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 43 1.2 chopps completely normal. When you reach the prompt asking you for a 44 1.2 chopps shell name, just hit return. 45 1.2 chopps 46 1.2 chopps You will be presented with some information about the upgrade 47 1.2 chopps process and a warning message, and will be asked if you wish 48 1.2 chopps to proceed with the upgrade process. If you answer 49 1.2 chopps negatively, the upgrade process will stop, and your disk will 50 1.2 chopps not be modified. If you answer affirmatively, the upgrade 51 1.2 chopps process will begin, and your disk will be modified. You may 52 1.2 chopps hit Control-C to stop the upgrade process at any time. 53 1.2 chopps However, if you hit it at an inopportune moment, your system 54 1.2 chopps may be left in an inconsistent (and possibly unusable) state. 55 1.2 chopps 56 1.2 chopps You will be asked if you wish to upgrade your file systems to 57 1.2 chopps the new file system format. If you do, reply affirmatively. 58 1.2 chopps If you don't have your file systems upgraded now, you should 59 1.2 chopps probably do it manually after the install process is complete, 60 1.2 chopps by using "fsck -c 2". Read the fsck(8) manual page for more 61 1.2 chopps details. 62 1.2 chopps >>> Is this needed for 1.0 to 1.1 upgrade? Or mention that the upgrade 63 1.2 chopps >>> should be done if it wasn't previously done? [It shouldn't hurt 64 1.2 chopps >>> to run through the upgrade steps.] 65 1.2 chopps 66 1.2 chopps The upgrade program will then check your root file system, 67 1.2 chopps and, if you approved, will upgrade it to the new file system 68 1.2 chopps format. It will then mount your root file system on /mnt. 69 1.2 chopps 70 1.2 chopps If your file systems are being upgraded, the upgrade script 71 1.2 chopps will copy the new fsck(8) program to your hard disk and 72 1.2 chopps upgrade your remaining file systems. 73 1.2 chopps 74 1.2 chopps The upgrade program will then mount all of your file systems 75 1.2 chopps under /mnt. (In other words, your root partition will be 76 1.2 chopps mounted on /mnt, your /usr partition on /mnt/usr, etc.) 77 1.2 chopps 78 1.2 chopps If you don't already have the NetBSD distribution sets on your 79 1.2 chopps disk, look in the installation section for information on how 80 1.2 chopps to transfer them to your disk. 81 1.2 chopps >>> NetBSD or AmigaDOS partitions... 82 1.2 chopps 83 1.2 chopps Once the distribution sets are transferred to your disk, 84 1.2 chopps continue here. (Obviously, if the NetBSD distribution sets 85 1.2 chopps are already on your disk, because you've transferred them 86 1.2 chopps before starting the upgrade process, you don't need to 87 1.2 chopps transfer them again now!) 88 1.2 chopps 89 1.2 chopps After the software has been transferred to the machine (or 90 1.2 chopps mounted, in the case of upgrading via NFS), change into the 91 1.2 chopps directory containing the "base11" distribution set. Once you 92 1.2 chopps are there, run the "Set_tmp_dir" command, and hit return at 93 1.2 chopps the prompt to select the default answer for the temporary 94 1.2 chopps directory's path name. (It should be the path name of the 95 1.2 chopps directory that you're in.) 96 1.2 chopps 97 1.2 chopps Run the command "Extract base11" to upgrade the base 98 1.2 chopps distribution. 99 1.2 chopps 100 1.2 chopps Repeat the above two steps for all of the sets you wish to 101 1.2 chopps upgrade. (For each, change into the directory containing the 102 1.2 chopps set, run "Set_tmp_dir" and accept the default path name, then 103 1.2 chopps run the "Extract <setname>" command.) 104 1.2 chopps 105 1.2 chopps If you were previously using the security distribution set, 106 1.2 chopps you MUST upgrade to the new version, or you will not be able 107 1.2 chopps to log in when the upgrade process is complete. Similarly, if 108 1.2 chopps you were not previously using the security set, you must NOT 109 1.2 chopps upgrade to the new version. 110 1.2 chopps 111 1.2 chopps When you are done upgrading all of the distribution sets you 112 1.2 chopps wish to upgrade, issue the command "Cleanup". It will clean 113 1.2 chopps up the installation, by remaking some system databases. When 114 1.2 chopps it is complete, you should use "halt" to halt the system. 115 1.2 chopps 116 1.2 chopps >>> transfer new kernel to / 117 1.2 chopps 118 1.2 chopps Your system has now been upgraded to NetBSD 1.1. 119 1.2 chopps 120 1.2 chopps After a new kernel has been copied to your hard disk, your 121 1.2 chopps machine is a complete NetBSD 1.1 system. However, that 122 1.2 chopps doesn't mean that you're finished with the upgrade process. 123 1.2 chopps There are several things that you should do, or might have to 124 1.2 chopps do, to insure that the system works properly. 125 1.2 chopps 126 1.2 chopps First, if you did not upgrade your file systems to the new 127 1.2 chopps file system format during the upgrade process, you may want to 128 1.2 chopps do so now, with "fsck -c 2". If you are unsure about the 129 1.2 chopps process, it's suggested that you read the fsck(8) manual page. 130 1.2 chopps 131 1.2 chopps Second, you will probably want to get the etc11 distribution, 132 1.2 chopps extract it, and compare its contents with those in your /etc/ 133 1.2 chopps directory. You will probably want to replace some of your 134 1.2 chopps system configuration files, or incorporate some of the changes 135 1.2 chopps in the new versions into yours. 136 1.2 chopps 137 1.2 chopps Third, you will probably want to update the set of device 138 1.2 chopps nodes you have in /dev. If you've changed the contents of 139 1.2 chopps /dev by hand, you will need to be careful about this, but if 140 1.2 chopps not, you can just cd into /dev, and run the command "sh 141 1.2 chopps MAKEDEV all". 142 1.2 chopps 143 1.2 chopps Fourth, you must deal with certain changes in the formats of 144 1.2 chopps some of the configuration files. The most notable change is 145 1.2 chopps that the "options" given to many of the file systems in 146 1.2 chopps /etc/fstab or by hand have changed, and some of the file 147 1.2 chopps systems have changed names. To find out what the new options 148 1.2 chopps are, it's suggested that you read the manual page for the 149 1.2 chopps file systems' mount commands, for example mount_nfs(8) for 150 1.2 chopps NFS. (Note that the information for mounts of type "ufs", 151 1.2 chopps i.e. Fast File Systems, are contained in the mount(8) man 152 1.2 chopps page.) 153 1.2 chopps >>> Is this needed for 1.0 -> 1.1 upgrade? 154 1.2 chopps 155 1.2 chopps Finally, you will want to delete old binaries that were part 156 1.2 chopps of the version of NetBSD that you upgraded from and have since 157 1.2 chopps been removed from the NetBSD distribution. You might also 158 1.2 chopps want to recompile any locally-built binaries, to take 159 1.2 chopps advantage of the shared libraries. (Note that any new 160 1.2 chopps binaries that you build will be dynamically linked, and 161 1.2 chopps therefore take advantage of the shared libraries, by default. 162 1.2 chopps For information on how to make statically linked binaries, 163 1.2 chopps see the cc(1) and ld(1) manual pages.) 164
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