From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 28 14:10:24 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE77916A41F for ; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 14:10:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from numard@meijome.net) Received: from sigma.octantis.com.au (sigma.octantis.com.au [207.44.188.23]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66AB444409 for ; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 14:10:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from numard@meijome.net) Received: (qmail 24562 invoked from network); 29 Jul 2005 00:10:23 +1000 Received: from 203-173-32-215.dyn.iinet.net.au (HELO ?192.168.13.3?) (203.173.32.215) by sigma.octantis.com.au with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 29 Jul 2005 00:10:23 +1000 Message-ID: <42E8E749.10904@meijome.net> Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 00:10:17 +1000 From: Norberto Meijome User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Backup kernel - confirmation X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 14:10:24 -0000 quick question - I have a remote box with SMP/HTT disabled, but I'd like to see how it works with it. If I make a copy of my current kernel to /kernel_orig, I should be able to install the SMP one as /kernel, and if hell breaks lose, I should be able to point it to /kernel_orig ... right? any caveats for this? ( I do off-band access to the server) thanks in advance, Beto