From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 15 16:20:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from aragorn.neomedia.it (aragorn.neomedia.it [195.103.207.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48B3037B8F2 for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 16:20:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bartequi@neomedia.it) Received: from bartequi.ottodomain.org (ppp4-pa4.neomedia.it [195.103.207.196]) by aragorn.neomedia.it (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id BAA00702; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 01:20:13 +0100 (CET) From: Salvo Bartolotta Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 00:23:47 GMT Message-ID: <20000316.234700@bartequi.ottodomain.org> Subject: Re: 4.0 questions To: Kent Stewart , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <38D00571.E009CFEA@3-cities.com> References: <20000315174907.C3638@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20000315194743.F52322@florence.pavilion.net> <20000315195316.A5217@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20000315200915.G52322@florence.pavilion.net> <20000315201904.A5253@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20000315202416.B38482@genius.systems.pavilion.net> <20000315202923.D5433@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20000315211255.B244@parish> <20000315211902.B5892@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <38D000ED.25EADBC5@3-cities.com> <20000315214051.G244@parish> <38D00571.E009CFEA@3-cities.com> X-Mailer: SuperCalifragilis X-Priority: 3 (Normal) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< On 3/15/00, 10:49:37 PM, Kent Stewart wrote=20 regarding Re: 4.0 questions: > Mark Ovens wrote: > > > > On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 01:30:21PM -0800, Kent Stewart wrote: > > > > > > > > > J McKitrick wrote: > > > > > > > > On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 09:12:55PM +0000, Mark Ovens wrote: > > > > > > > > > ``make buildworld'' increased from 1 hour 40 mins to 2 hours 3= 5mins > > > > > though :-O > > > > > > > > What kind of box are you running? > > > > > > I wanted to ask the same question because on my 450 a buildworld > > > requires 1936 seconds (49 mins WClock), > > > > Go on, cheer me up why don't you :) > > > > 9102.88 real 6802.06 user 1620.34 sys > You are probably even at this point. I followed your Ensoniq episode > and purchased a es1371. Next, I have followed your multi-booting > Win/Win2K/FreeBSD and am in the process of adding a 5.1GB drive with a= > larger UDMA-66 drive, which will allow me to add FreeBSD as a boot > option. You just didn't know about all of the side effects you have > produced :). > Cheers, > Kent Dear Kent, Jonathon and Mark, as (yet) another side effect, I run ... two FreeBSD versions (3-STABLE=20 and 4.0 ehem -STABLE, soon to try 5.0-CURRENT) on *3* hard disks --=20 six Oses in all so far. I have followed this thread and I would like to add a caveat: DANGER ! DANGER ! DANGER ! if you happen to reboot (e.g. power=20 failure etc.) after booting with the 4.0 kernel, you may be LOST. You=20 may lose your FreeBSD installation. Restoring from backup (you have=20 done a backup, haven't you ?) is not exactly a joy :-) =20 Well, when trying to install -CURRENT, it happened to me *sigh* However, I ran another -STABLE on another slice (paranoia is safe :-)=20 and it was straightforward to fsck from there. In fact, in that case,=20 you canNOT fsck from the would-be -CURRENT, ie you cannot mount " / "=20 R/W any longer. Another remark. If you have another slice with -STABLE, a viable and quick solution to=20 fix an unrecoverable make world is ... to make installworld=20 DESTDIR=3D/mnt from the -STABLE (you've suitably mounted your s****ed=20 would-be -CURRENT partitions under /mnt and /mnt/usr, of course). If=20 you have documented your mergemaster action in the past (e.g. by=20 writing down and next copying the updated config files somewhere),=20 restoring -STABLE is a child's play (less than 15 minutes ;-))) =20 I had to do this in another trial of mine -- *re-sigh*=20 However, I have been happily running -STABLE and -CURRENT (now=20 -Release), and I have just finished burning a couple of data CD under=20 -CURRENT. It works like charm. Best regards (yawn) Salvo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message