From owner-freebsd-isp Sat Mar 22 12:29:30 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFCD137B401 for ; Sat, 22 Mar 2003 12:29:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from mordrede.visionsix.com (mordrede.visionsix.com [65.202.119.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E504C43F85 for ; Sat, 22 Mar 2003 12:29:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lists@visionsix.com) Received: from vsis169 (unverified [65.202.119.169]) by mordrede.visionsix.com (Vircom SMTPRS 2.0.239) with SMTP id for ; Sat, 22 Mar 2003 14:29:25 -0600 Message-ID: <009701c2f0b1$b9914c20$a977ca41@vsis169> From: "Lewis Watson" To: Subject: Production Machine, Custom Kernel, Updating to P9 Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 14:29:23 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello list members, First, please direct me to a more suitable list if this is too OT. I am running a few FreeBSD machines in a small isp environment. I want to upgrade from release 4.7-p7 to release 4.7-p9 on a machine with a customized kernel that is *in production* and am hoping that those of you more experienced with FreeBSD can give me some advise to keep this machine solid. In my limited past I have went the route of install OS from cd; cvsup with RELENG_4_7 all the way to make installworld and then once the OS was updated I would customize my kernel. So now I want to update to 4.7-p9 and I have a customized kernel and am not sure what is the best way to proceed. I have read /usr/src/UPDATING and the handbook regarding rebuilding the kernel after syncing the src. It looks as if I have two paths. 1) Rebuild with my custom kernel or 2) rebuild with a generic kernel and then rebuild a custom kernel later. I would prefer to go with my custom kernel but am afraid that something may break; which in turns makes me want to go with GENERIC... but then..... I have googled this in various ways and found an article where make buildkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC would stop with an error in his case. So before I hose my system I am hoping that the more experienced list members in the isp environment who understand my situation could share their past experiences... Thank you, Lewis To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message