Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 14:05:02 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: Ian Cartwright <ianc@michiganconnect.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New Kernel Breaks linux_base? Message-ID: <20000513140501.F5167@physics.iisc.ernet.in> In-Reply-To: <20000512192515.A24299@orion.ac.hmc.edu>; from brooks@one-eyed-alien.net on Fri, May 12, 2000 at 07:25:15PM -0700 References: <391CBC46.8090807@michiganconnect.com> <20000512192515.A24299@orion.ac.hmc.edu>
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> > I am conteplating a make world, but that may be overkill (and is very > > scary for me, being a relative newbie to the deep dark secrets of > > FreeBSD)... Any thoughts? > > A make world is exactly what you should do. You can not update your > kernel without updating your modules and the prefered way to do so in > 4.x is make world. In 5.0 modules should have versions to avoid the > panic and be updated with the kernel to avoid sync problems. This is > partialy working in current now. Moreover, there's nothing scary about make world. Do it in two steps, make buildworld (which you can do while using the machine normally for other things) and make installworld (before which you should preferably stop other jobs, perhaps bring it down to single-user mode). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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