From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 19 08:48:44 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id IAA24526 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 19 Jun 1995 08:48:44 -0700 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id IAA24520 for ; Mon, 19 Jun 1995 08:48:43 -0700 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id BAA20521; Tue, 20 Jun 1995 01:13:21 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199506191543.BAA20521@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: bringing up freebsd To: leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com (Marty Leisner) Date: Tue, 20 Jun 1995 01:13:21 +0930 (CST) Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <9506191453.AA24009@gnu.mc.xerox.com> from "Marty Leisner" at Jun 19, 95 07:53:45 am Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1400 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Marty Leisner stands accused of saying: > > So should I be able to install the 2.05R > kernel in /, call is kernel-2.05 > and then do > > boot wd(0,a)/kernel-2.05... Er, no. There's a *lot* more to it than just that. Face it; you will _have_ to make a backup, and newfs at least your root filesystem. If you set things up properly, you'll only be overwriting the old 2.0R install anyway. If you had a seperate /usr, newfs that as well. (I've found a 400M combined root & usr works well for a fairly seriously configured 2.0.5 system; this gives you room for source and a fair pile of application.) > If the system utilities (I assume things like ps? pstat?) > are broken, it should be relatively easy to replace them > with utilities from another directory... This is a really stupid idea; you'll end up with a horibble mix of versions, and us poor bastards will die trying to work out your problems. (I would imagine, for instance, that init would probably be one of the first things to break.) > marty -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" - Terry Lambert [[