Date: Tue, 20 Jun 1995 01:13:21 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com (Marty Leisner) Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bringing up freebsd Message-ID: <199506191543.BAA20521@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <9506191453.AA24009@gnu.mc.xerox.com> from "Marty Leisner" at Jun 19, 95 07:53:45 am
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Marty Leisner stands accused of saying: > > So should I be able to install the 2.05R > kernel in /, call is kernel-2.05 > and then do > > boot wd(0,a)/kernel-2.05... Er, no. There's a *lot* more to it than just that. Face it; you will _have_ to make a backup, and newfs at least your root filesystem. If you set things up properly, you'll only be overwriting the old 2.0R install anyway. If you had a seperate /usr, newfs that as well. (I've found a 400M combined root & usr works well for a fairly seriously configured 2.0.5 system; this gives you room for source and a fair pile of application.) > If the system utilities (I assume things like ps? pstat?) > are broken, it should be relatively easy to replace them > with utilities from another directory... This is a really stupid idea; you'll end up with a horibble mix of versions, and us poor bastards will die trying to work out your problems. (I would imagine, for instance, that init would probably be one of the first things to break.) > marty -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" - Terry Lambert [[
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