Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 14:29:23 -0600 From: "Lewis Watson" <lists@visionsix.com> To: <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Production Machine, Custom Kernel, Updating to P9 Message-ID: <009701c2f0b1$b9914c20$a977ca41@vsis169>
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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
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