From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 29 15:55:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA17173 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:55:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA17157 for ; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:55:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA00936; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:55:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199810292355.PAA00936@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Drew Baxter cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 3.0 AOUT In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 29 Oct 1998 18:50:01 EST." <4.1.19981029184825.00b115a0@genesis.ispace.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:55:18 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Haven't migrated up to an ELF system yet because of some remarks about the > boot loader... > > How much damage am I going to get into by make buildworld/make aout-to-elf > from 30 miles away? I can make and install the world fine from here, I > just wasn't sure of the logistics of me being locked out of my box.. Just migrating to ELF still leaves you with an a.out kernel. No risk as long as you update /etc/rc at the same time. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message