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1<html> 2<head> 3<title>Updating Information for FreeBSD current users</title> 4</head> 5<body> 6<h1>Updating Information for FreeBSD current users</h1> 7<p> 8This file is maintainted by <a href="mailto:imp@village.org">Warner 9Losh</a>. Please send new entries in it to him. It contains a list, 10in reverse chronologocal order, of major breakages in tracking 11-current. Not all things will be listed here, and it only starts on 12Novemeber 18, 1998. If you have an earlier version of FreeBSD, you 13are on your own to get to November 18, 1998.</P> 14 15<table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 boarder=0 width="95%" align=center> 16 <tr> 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 24 <br> 25 <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/~yokota/sc_update.txt"> 26 http://www.freebsd.org/~yokota/sc_update.txt</a> 27 <br> 28 It has notes on splash screen too. 29 </td> 30 </tr> 31 <tr> 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: 36 <br> 37 <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/~rnordier/boot.txt"> 38 http://www.freebsd.org/~rnordier/boot.txt</a> 39 <p> 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 46 recommended. 47 </td> 48 </tr> 49 <tr> 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 53 <br> 54 <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/~peter/elfday.html"> 55 http://www.freebsd.org/~peter/elfday.html</a> 56 <br> 57 about the upcoming change, its motivations and instructions 58 for doing the upgrade. 59 </td> 60 </tr> 61 <tr> 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 70 for more details. 71 </td> 72 </tr> 73 <tr> 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. 79 <p> 80 Failure to do this will result in "ATAPI CD-ROMs not 81 configured" at boot time. 82 <p> 83 The floppy tape driver (ft) has been removed from the kernel, 84 with no replacement driver. 85 </td> 86 </tr> 87 <tr> 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. 92 </td> 93 </tr> 94 <tr> 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 98 src/etc/group: 99 <pre> 100 % grep <newstuff> /usr/src/etc/group 101 bind:*:53: 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 106 </pre> 107 </td> 108 </tr> 109 <tr> 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. 115 </td> 116 </tr> 117</table> 118<p> 119<comment> 120$Id: UPDATING,v 1.10 1999/01/11 09:07:18 imp Exp $ 121</comment> 122</body> 123