3 <title>Updating Information for FreeBSD current users</title>
6 <h1>Updating Information for FreeBSD current users</h1>
8 This file is maintainted by <a href="mailto:imp@village.org">Warner
9 Losh</a>. Please send new entries in it to him. It contains a list,
10 in reverse chronologocal order, of major breakages in tracking
11 -current. Not all things will be listed here, and it only starts on
12 Novemeber 18, 1998. If you have an earlier version of FreeBSD, you
13 are on your own to get to November 18, 1998.</P>
15 <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 boarder=0 width="95%" align=center>
17 <td width="10%" valign=top align=left><b>19990111</b></td>
18 <td valign=top align=left>
19 New keyboard and video card drivers are introduced as the first
20 stage of console driver reorganization. You are required to
21 update the kernel configuration file and rebuild the kernel.
22 kbdcontrol, vidcontrol, and screen savers also need recompilation.
23 The instruction can be found in
25 <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/~yokota/sc_update.txt">
26 http://www.freebsd.org/~yokota/sc_update.txt</a>
28 It has notes on splash screen too.
32 <td width="10%" valign=top align=left><b>19990106</b></td>
33 <td valign=top align=left>
34 Robert Nordier was kind enough to make this page to enable people to
35 install the new bootblocks:
37 <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/~rnordier/boot.txt">
38 http://www.freebsd.org/~rnordier/boot.txt</a>
40 When updating to ELF, make sure that you have updated your
41 /etc/rc files which have different ldconfig invocations for
42 elf and aout. Otherwise things like X will stop working with
43 messages about being unable to find library files. The
44 mergemaster utility in ports/sysutils/mergemaster helps to
45 keep critical files like this in sync, and its use is
50 <td width="10%" valign=top align=left><b>19990104</b></td>
51 <td valign=top align=left>
52 Information about ELF day (see 19981230) can be found in
54 <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/~peter/elfday.html">
55 http://www.freebsd.org/~peter/elfday.html</a>
57 about the upcoming change, its motivations and instructions
58 for doing the upgrade.
62 <td width="10%" valign=top align=left><b>19981230</b></td>
63 <td valign=top align=left>
64 You should install new bootblocks now. The ELF kernel will
65 become default soon. In addition, you'll need to upgrade
66 your userland programs to ELF before then as well. Use
67 make aout-to-elf to upgrade your userland programs (old
68 a.out programs in, for example, /usr/local/bin will
69 continue to work, even after the upgrade). See src/Makefile
74 <td width="10%" valign=top align=left><b>19981224</b></td>
75 <td valign=top align=left>
76 The old wcd driver has been deleted from the kernel. The
77 driver that replaces it is named acd. You'll need to change
78 this in your configuration files.
80 Failure to do this will result in "ATAPI CD-ROMs not
81 configured" at boot time.
83 The floppy tape driver (ft) has been removed from the kernel,
84 with no replacement driver.
88 <td width="10%" valign=top align=left><b>19981202</b></td>
89 <td valign=top align=left>
90 New groups from 19981201 commented out of mtree, so they
91 aren't strictly needed, but still a good idea to have.
95 <td width="10%" valign=top align=left><b>19981201</b></td>
96 <td valign=top align=left>
97 New user/group added: bind. From src/etc/master.passwd and
100 % grep <newstuff> /usr/src/etc/group
102 % grep <newstuff> /usr/src/etc/master.passwd
103 tty:*:4:65533::0:0:Tty Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin
104 kmem:*:5:65533::0:0:KMem Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin
105 bind:*:53:53::0:0:Bind Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin
110 <td width="10%" valign=top align=left><b>19981118</b></td>
111 <td valign=top align=left>
112 PAM integrated into the tree. Requires new /etc/pam.conf file
113 to silence warnings from authentication programs (login, etc).
114 See src/etc/pam.conf for a sample.
120 $Id: UPDATING,v 1.10 1999/01/11 09:07:18 imp Exp $