upgrade revision 1.2.2.1
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 1.2.2.1 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 1.2.2.1 chopps To do the upgrade, you must have the NetBSD kernel on AmigaDOS and 11 1.2.2.1 chopps you must transfer the upgrade filesystem upgr-11.fs onto the swap 12 1.2.2.1 chopps partition of the NetBSD hard disk. You must also have at least the 13 1.2.2.1 chopps "base11" binary distribution set available, so that you can upgrade 14 1.2.2.1 chopps with it, using one of the upgrade methods described above. Finally, 15 1.2.2.1 chopps you must have sufficient disk space available to install the new 16 1.2.2.1 chopps binaries. Since the old binaries are being overwritten in place, 17 1.2.2.1 chopps you only need space for the new binaries, which weren't previously 18 1.2.2.1 chopps on the system. If you have a few megabytes free on each of your 19 1.2.2.1 chopps root and /usr partitions, you should have enough space. 20 1.2 chopps 21 1.2 chopps Since upgrading involves replacing the kernel, and most of the system 22 1.2 chopps binaries, it has the potential to cause data loss. You are strongly 23 1.2 chopps advised to BACK UP ANY IMPORTANT DATA ON YOUR DISK, whether on the 24 1.2 chopps NetBSD partition or on another operating system's partition, before 25 1.2 chopps beginning the upgrade process. 26 1.2 chopps 27 1.2 chopps To upgrade your system, follow the following instructions: 28 1.2 chopps 29 1.2.2.1 chopps Transfer the upgrade miniroot filesystem onto the hard disk 30 1.2.2.1 chopps partition used by NetBSD for swapping, as described in the 31 1.2.2.1 chopps "Preparing your System for NetBSD Installation" section above. 32 1.2.2.1 chopps 33 1.2.2.1 chopps Now boot up NetBSD using the 1.1 kernel using the loadbsd 34 1.2.2.1 chopps command: 35 1.2.2.1 chopps 36 1.2.2.1 chopps loadbsd -b netbsd 37 1.2.2.1 chopps 38 1.2.2.1 chopps You should see the screen clear and some information about 39 1.2.2.1 chopps your system as the kernel configures the hardware. Note which 40 1.2.2.1 chopps hard disk device is configured that contains your root and 41 1.2.2.1 chopps swap partition. When prompted for the root device, type 42 1.2.2.1 chopps 'sd0*' (replacing 0 with the disk number that NetBSD used for 43 1.2.2.1 chopps your root/swap device). The '*' character indicates that the 44 1.2.2.1 chopps root filesystem is contained on the swap partition. 45 1.2.2.1 chopps When you reach the prompt asking you for a shell name, just 46 1.2.2.1 chopps hit return. 47 1.2 chopps 48 1.2 chopps You will be presented with some information about the upgrade 49 1.2 chopps process and a warning message, and will be asked if you wish 50 1.2 chopps to proceed with the upgrade process. If you answer 51 1.2 chopps negatively, the upgrade process will stop, and your disk will 52 1.2 chopps not be modified. If you answer affirmatively, the upgrade 53 1.2 chopps process will begin, and your disk will be modified. You may 54 1.2 chopps hit Control-C to stop the upgrade process at any time. 55 1.2 chopps However, if you hit it at an inopportune moment, your system 56 1.2 chopps may be left in an inconsistent (and possibly unusable) state. 57 1.2 chopps 58 1.2 chopps You will be asked if you wish to upgrade your file systems to 59 1.2 chopps the new file system format. If you do, reply affirmatively. 60 1.2 chopps If you don't have your file systems upgraded now, you should 61 1.2 chopps probably do it manually after the install process is complete, 62 1.2 chopps by using "fsck -c 2". Read the fsck(8) manual page for more 63 1.2 chopps details. 64 1.2 chopps >>> Is this needed for 1.0 to 1.1 upgrade? Or mention that the upgrade 65 1.2 chopps >>> should be done if it wasn't previously done? [It shouldn't hurt 66 1.2 chopps >>> to run through the upgrade steps.] 67 1.2 chopps 68 1.2 chopps The upgrade program will then check your root file system, 69 1.2 chopps and, if you approved, will upgrade it to the new file system 70 1.2 chopps format. It will then mount your root file system on /mnt. 71 1.2 chopps 72 1.2 chopps If your file systems are being upgraded, the upgrade script 73 1.2 chopps will copy the new fsck(8) program to your hard disk and 74 1.2 chopps upgrade your remaining file systems. 75 1.2 chopps 76 1.2 chopps The upgrade program will then mount all of your file systems 77 1.2 chopps under /mnt. (In other words, your root partition will be 78 1.2 chopps mounted on /mnt, your /usr partition on /mnt/usr, etc.) 79 1.2 chopps 80 1.2 chopps If you don't already have the NetBSD distribution sets on your 81 1.2 chopps disk, look in the installation section for information on how 82 1.2 chopps to transfer them to your disk. 83 1.2 chopps >>> NetBSD or AmigaDOS partitions... 84 1.2 chopps 85 1.2 chopps Once the distribution sets are transferred to your disk, 86 1.2 chopps continue here. (Obviously, if the NetBSD distribution sets 87 1.2 chopps are already on your disk, because you've transferred them 88 1.2 chopps before starting the upgrade process, you don't need to 89 1.2 chopps transfer them again now!) 90 1.2 chopps 91 1.2 chopps After the software has been transferred to the machine (or 92 1.2 chopps mounted, in the case of upgrading via NFS), change into the 93 1.2 chopps directory containing the "base11" distribution set. Once you 94 1.2 chopps are there, run the "Set_tmp_dir" command, and hit return at 95 1.2 chopps the prompt to select the default answer for the temporary 96 1.2 chopps directory's path name. (It should be the path name of the 97 1.2 chopps directory that you're in.) 98 1.2 chopps 99 1.2 chopps Run the command "Extract base11" to upgrade the base 100 1.2 chopps distribution. 101 1.2 chopps 102 1.2 chopps Repeat the above two steps for all of the sets you wish to 103 1.2 chopps upgrade. (For each, change into the directory containing the 104 1.2 chopps set, run "Set_tmp_dir" and accept the default path name, then 105 1.2 chopps run the "Extract <setname>" command.) 106 1.2 chopps 107 1.2 chopps If you were previously using the security distribution set, 108 1.2 chopps you MUST upgrade to the new version, or you will not be able 109 1.2 chopps to log in when the upgrade process is complete. Similarly, if 110 1.2 chopps you were not previously using the security set, you must NOT 111 1.2 chopps upgrade to the new version. 112 1.2 chopps 113 1.2 chopps When you are done upgrading all of the distribution sets you 114 1.2 chopps wish to upgrade, issue the command "Cleanup". It will clean 115 1.2 chopps up the installation, by remaking some system databases. When 116 1.2 chopps it is complete, you should use "halt" to halt the system. 117 1.2 chopps 118 1.2 chopps >>> transfer new kernel to / 119 1.2 chopps 120 1.2 chopps Your system has now been upgraded to NetBSD 1.1. 121 1.2 chopps 122 1.2 chopps After a new kernel has been copied to your hard disk, your 123 1.2 chopps machine is a complete NetBSD 1.1 system. However, that 124 1.2 chopps doesn't mean that you're finished with the upgrade process. 125 1.2 chopps There are several things that you should do, or might have to 126 1.2 chopps do, to insure that the system works properly. 127 1.2 chopps 128 1.2 chopps First, if you did not upgrade your file systems to the new 129 1.2 chopps file system format during the upgrade process, you may want to 130 1.2 chopps do so now, with "fsck -c 2". If you are unsure about the 131 1.2 chopps process, it's suggested that you read the fsck(8) manual page. 132 1.2 chopps 133 1.2 chopps Second, you will probably want to get the etc11 distribution, 134 1.2 chopps extract it, and compare its contents with those in your /etc/ 135 1.2 chopps directory. You will probably want to replace some of your 136 1.2 chopps system configuration files, or incorporate some of the changes 137 1.2 chopps in the new versions into yours. 138 1.2 chopps 139 1.2 chopps Third, you will probably want to update the set of device 140 1.2 chopps nodes you have in /dev. If you've changed the contents of 141 1.2 chopps /dev by hand, you will need to be careful about this, but if 142 1.2 chopps not, you can just cd into /dev, and run the command "sh 143 1.2 chopps MAKEDEV all". 144 1.2 chopps 145 1.2 chopps Fourth, you must deal with certain changes in the formats of 146 1.2 chopps some of the configuration files. The most notable change is 147 1.2 chopps that the "options" given to many of the file systems in 148 1.2 chopps /etc/fstab or by hand have changed, and some of the file 149 1.2 chopps systems have changed names. To find out what the new options 150 1.2 chopps are, it's suggested that you read the manual page for the 151 1.2 chopps file systems' mount commands, for example mount_nfs(8) for 152 1.2 chopps NFS. (Note that the information for mounts of type "ufs", 153 1.2 chopps i.e. Fast File Systems, are contained in the mount(8) man 154 1.2 chopps page.) 155 1.2 chopps >>> Is this needed for 1.0 -> 1.1 upgrade? 156 1.2 chopps 157 1.2 chopps Finally, you will want to delete old binaries that were part 158 1.2 chopps of the version of NetBSD that you upgraded from and have since 159 1.2 chopps been removed from the NetBSD distribution. You might also 160 1.2 chopps want to recompile any locally-built binaries, to take 161 1.2 chopps advantage of the shared libraries. (Note that any new 162 1.2 chopps binaries that you build will be dynamically linked, and 163 1.2 chopps therefore take advantage of the shared libraries, by default. 164 1.2 chopps For information on how to make statically linked binaries, 165 1.2 chopps see the cc(1) and ld(1) manual pages.) 166
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