From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 29 15:58:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA17737 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:58:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from Loki.orland.u91.k12.me.us (Loki.orland.u91.k12.me.us [169.244.111.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA17730 for ; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:58:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from netmonger@genesis.ispace.com) Received: from Celeris (56k-port4014.ime.net [209.90.195.24]) by Loki.orland.u91.k12.me.us (8.9.1/8.8.8-Loki) with SMTP id SAA04652; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 18:58:39 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from netmonger@genesis.ispace.com) X-Server-ID: Loki.orland.u91.k12.me.us, OCSNet - Orland Maine USA X-Coord-Name: Drew "Droobie" Baxter, OneNetwork Exchange X-Coord-Addr: Droobie@Openlink.orland.me.us X-Coord-Pager: USA: 207-471-2719, http://pagedroo.orland.me.us Message-Id: <4.1.19981029185602.00920f00@genesis.ispace.com> X-Sender: netmonger@genesis.ispace.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 18:56:53 -0500 To: Mike Smith From: Drew Baxter Subject: Re: FreeBSD 3.0 AOUT Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199810292355.PAA00936@dingo.cdrom.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 03:55 PM 10/29/98 -0800, Mike Smith wrote: >> 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 > Hmm.. what needs to be changed there? I was thinking OBJFORMAT=... but I thought that was in a different file.. --- Drew "Droobie" Baxter Network Admin/Professional Computer Nerd(TM) OneEX: The OneNetwork Exchange 207-942-0275 http://www.droo.orland.me.us My Latest Kernel: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT (ONEEX) #14: Mon Oct 19 22:36:58 EDT 1998 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message