19857e582SWarner Losh<html> 29857e582SWarner Losh<head> 39857e582SWarner Losh<title>Updating Information for FreeBSD current users</title> 49857e582SWarner Losh</head> 59857e582SWarner Losh<body> 69857e582SWarner Losh<h1>Updating Information for FreeBSD current users</h1> 79857e582SWarner Losh<p> 89857e582SWarner LoshThis file is maintainted by <a href="mailto:imp@village.org">Warner 99857e582SWarner LoshLosh</a>. Please send new entries in it to him. It contains a list, 109857e582SWarner Loshin reverse chronologocal order, of major breakages in tracking 119857e582SWarner Losh-current. Not all things will be listed here, and it only starts on 129857e582SWarner LoshNovemeber 18, 1998. If you have an earlier version of FreeBSD, you 139857e582SWarner Loshare on your own to get to November 18, 1998.</P> 1453dfde79SWarner Losh 159857e582SWarner Losh<table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 boarder=0 width="95%" align=center> 169857e582SWarner Losh <tr> 179857e582SWarner Losh <td width="10%" valign=top align=left><b>19990111</b></td> 189857e582SWarner Losh <td valign=top align=left> 19a85c0f55SWarner Losh New keyboard and video card drivers are introduced as the first 20a85c0f55SWarner Losh stage of console driver reorganization. You are required to 21a85c0f55SWarner Losh update the kernel configuration file and rebuild the kernel. 22a85c0f55SWarner Losh kbdcontrol, vidcontrol, and screen savers also need recompilation. 23a85c0f55SWarner Losh The instruction can be found in 249857e582SWarner Losh <br> 259857e582SWarner Losh <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/~yokota/sc_update.txt"> 269857e582SWarner Losh http://www.freebsd.org/~yokota/sc_update.txt</a> 279857e582SWarner Losh <br> 28a85c0f55SWarner Losh It has notes on splash screen too. 299857e582SWarner Losh </td> 309857e582SWarner Losh </tr> 319857e582SWarner Losh <tr> 329857e582SWarner Losh <td width="10%" valign=top align=left><b>19990106</b></td> 339857e582SWarner Losh <td valign=top align=left> 349857e582SWarner Losh Robert Nordier was kind enough to make this page to enable people to 35db23c94fSWarner Losh install the new bootblocks: 369857e582SWarner Losh <br> 379857e582SWarner Losh <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/~rnordier/boot.txt"> 389857e582SWarner Losh http://www.freebsd.org/~rnordier/boot.txt</a> 399857e582SWarner Losh <p> 409ba54ae0SWarner Losh When updating to ELF, make sure that you have updated your 419ba54ae0SWarner Losh /etc/rc files which have different ldconfig invocations for 429ba54ae0SWarner Losh elf and aout. Otherwise things like X will stop working with 439857e582SWarner Losh messages about being unable to find library files. The 449857e582SWarner Losh mergemaster utility in ports/sysutils/mergemaster helps to 459857e582SWarner Losh keep critical files like this in sync, and its use is 469857e582SWarner Losh recommended. 479857e582SWarner Losh </td> 489857e582SWarner Losh </tr> 499857e582SWarner Losh <tr> 509857e582SWarner Losh <td width="10%" valign=top align=left><b>19990104</b></td> 519857e582SWarner Losh <td valign=top align=left> 522c558794SWarner Losh Information about ELF day (see 19981230) can be found in 539857e582SWarner Losh <br> 549857e582SWarner Losh <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/~peter/elfday.html"> 559857e582SWarner Losh http://www.freebsd.org/~peter/elfday.html</a> 569857e582SWarner Losh <br> 572c558794SWarner Losh about the upcoming change, its motivations and instructions 582c558794SWarner Losh for doing the upgrade. 599857e582SWarner Losh </td> 609857e582SWarner Losh </tr> 619857e582SWarner Losh <tr> 629857e582SWarner Losh <td width="10%" valign=top align=left><b>19981230</b></td> 639857e582SWarner Losh <td valign=top align=left> 64d5513f53SWarner Losh You should install new bootblocks now. The ELF kernel will 65e363c17bSWarner Losh become default soon. In addition, you'll need to upgrade 66e363c17bSWarner Losh your userland programs to ELF before then as well. Use 67e363c17bSWarner Losh make aout-to-elf to upgrade your userland programs (old 68e363c17bSWarner Losh a.out programs in, for example, /usr/local/bin will 69e363c17bSWarner Losh continue to work, even after the upgrade). See src/Makefile 70e363c17bSWarner Losh for more details. 719857e582SWarner Losh </td> 729857e582SWarner Losh </tr> 739857e582SWarner Losh <tr> 749857e582SWarner Losh <td width="10%" valign=top align=left><b>19981224</b></td> 759857e582SWarner Losh <td valign=top align=left> 76355edc3eSWarner Losh The old wcd driver has been deleted from the kernel. The 77355edc3eSWarner Losh driver that replaces it is named acd. You'll need to change 78355edc3eSWarner Losh this in your configuration files. 799857e582SWarner Losh <p> 80355edc3eSWarner Losh Failure to do this will result in "ATAPI CD-ROMs not 81355edc3eSWarner Losh configured" at boot time. 829857e582SWarner Losh <p> 83355edc3eSWarner Losh The floppy tape driver (ft) has been removed from the kernel, 84355edc3eSWarner Losh with no replacement driver. 859857e582SWarner Losh </td> 869857e582SWarner Losh </tr> 879857e582SWarner Losh <tr> 889857e582SWarner Losh <td width="10%" valign=top align=left><b>19981202</b></td> 899857e582SWarner Losh <td valign=top align=left> 90ab308df6SWarner Losh New groups from 19981201 commented out of mtree, so they 91ab308df6SWarner Losh aren't strictly needed, but still a good idea to have. 929857e582SWarner Losh </td> 939857e582SWarner Losh </tr> 949857e582SWarner Losh <tr> 959857e582SWarner Losh <td width="10%" valign=top align=left><b>19981201</b></td> 969857e582SWarner Losh <td valign=top align=left> 97ab308df6SWarner Losh New user/group added: bind. From src/etc/master.passwd and 98ab308df6SWarner Losh src/etc/group: 999857e582SWarner Losh <pre> 100ab308df6SWarner Losh % grep <newstuff> /usr/src/etc/group 101ab308df6SWarner Losh bind:*:53: 102ab308df6SWarner Losh % grep <newstuff> /usr/src/etc/master.passwd 103ab308df6SWarner Losh tty:*:4:65533::0:0:Tty Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin 104ab308df6SWarner Losh kmem:*:5:65533::0:0:KMem Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin 105ab308df6SWarner Losh bind:*:53:53::0:0:Bind Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin 1069857e582SWarner Losh </pre> 1079857e582SWarner Losh </td> 1089857e582SWarner Losh </tr> 1099857e582SWarner Losh <tr> 1109857e582SWarner Losh <td width="10%" valign=top align=left><b>19981118</b></td> 1119857e582SWarner Losh <td valign=top align=left> 11253dfde79SWarner Losh PAM integrated into the tree. Requires new /etc/pam.conf file 11353dfde79SWarner Losh to silence warnings from authentication programs (login, etc). 11453dfde79SWarner Losh See src/etc/pam.conf for a sample. 1159857e582SWarner Losh </td> 1169857e582SWarner Losh </tr> 1179857e582SWarner Losh</table> 1189857e582SWarner Losh<p> 1199857e582SWarner Losh<comment> 1209857e582SWarner Losh$Id: UPDATING,v 1.10 1999/01/11 09:07:18 imp Exp $ 1219857e582SWarner Losh</comment> 1229857e582SWarner Losh</body> 123