From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Sep 17 16:57:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ptavv.es.net (ptavv.es.net [198.128.4.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D25637B406; Mon, 17 Sep 2001 16:57:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ptavv.es.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ptavv.es.net (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id f8HNv7R28915; Mon, 17 Sep 2001 16:57:07 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200109172357.f8HNv7R28915@ptavv.es.net> To: Warner Losh Cc: "Chojin" , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, "George V. Neville-Neil" Subject: Re: Problems getting STABLE running on a VAIO 505TL In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 17 Sep 2001 17:24:36 MDT." <200109172324.f8HNOaW60005@harmony.village.org> Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 16:57:07 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 17:24:36 -0600 > From: Warner Losh > Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG > > In message <200109172240.f8HMe0R31074@ptavv.es.net> "Kevin Oberman" writes: > : I am baffled why people continue to suggest that the proper sequence > : for system rebuilds is wrong. And often in ways that could result in > : truly catastrophic failures. > > Likely because they can get away with it most of the time. But they will yell loudly if it does blow up on them. And, odds are, that it will eventually go BOOM. (I do customer support for ESnet about one out of six weeks.) R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message