1 Updating Information for FreeBSD current users
3 This file is maintainted by imp@village.org. Please send new entries
4 in it to him. It contains a list, in reverse chronologocal order, of
5 major breakages in tracking -current. Not all things will be listed
6 here, and it only starts on Novemeber 18, 1998. If you have an
7 earlier version of FreeBSD, you are on your own to get to November 18,
11 More work on the syscons driver has been committed. Since
12 files moved around, you will need to reconfigure your kernel,
13 and make clean; make depend before rebuilding the kernel. No
14 config file changes are needed.
17 New keyboard and video card drivers are introduced as the first
18 stage of console driver reorganization. You are required to
19 update the kernel configuration file and rebuild the kernel.
20 kbdcontrol, vidcontrol, and screen savers also need recompilation.
21 The instruction can be found in
23 http://www.freebsd.org/~yokota/sc_update.txt
25 It has notes on splash screen too.
28 Robert Nordier was kind enough to make this page to enable people to
29 install the new bootblocks:
31 http://www.freebsd.org/~rnordier/boot.txt
33 When updating to ELF, make sure that you have updated your
34 /etc/rc files which have different ldconfig invocations for
35 elf and aout. Otherwise things like X will stop working with
36 messages about being unable to find library files. The
37 mergemaster utility in ports/sysutils/mergemaster helps to
38 keep critical files like this in sync, and its use is
42 Information about ELF day (see 19981230) can be found in
44 http://www.freebsd.org/~peter/elfday.html
46 about the upcoming change, its motivations and instructions
47 for doing the upgrade.
50 You should install new bootblocks now. The ELF kernel will
51 become default soon. In addition, you'll need to upgrade
52 your userland programs to ELF before then as well. Use
53 make aout-to-elf to upgrade your userland programs (old
54 a.out programs in, for example, /usr/local/bin will
55 continue to work, even after the upgrade). See src/Makefile
59 The old wcd driver has been deleted from the kernel. The
60 driver that replaces it is named acd. You'll need to change
61 this in your configuration files.
63 Failure to do this will result in "ATAPI CD-ROMs not
64 configured" at boot time.
66 The floppy tape driver (ft) has been removed from the kernel,
67 with no replacement driver.
70 New groups from 19981201 commented out of mtree, so they
71 aren't strictly needed, but still a good idea to have.
74 New user/group added: bind. From src/etc/master.passwd and
76 % grep <newstuff> /usr/src/etc/group
78 % grep <newstuff> /usr/src/etc/master.passwd
79 tty:*:4:65533::0:0:Tty Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin
80 kmem:*:5:65533::0:0:KMem Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin
81 bind:*:53:53::0:0:Bind Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin
84 PAM integrated into the tree. Requires new /etc/pam.conf file
85 to silence warnings from authentication programs (login, etc).
86 See src/etc/pam.conf for a sample.
88 $Id: UPDATING,v 1.13 1999/01/17 17:39:32 imp Exp $