Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 12:28:12 -0500 From: "Doug Reynolds" <mav@wastegate.net> To: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@ptavv.es.net> Cc: "Brian T. Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org>, "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Rodrigo A B Freire" <bsdstuffs@brasilia.br> Subject: Re: Newbie: 4.4-stable, how to? - And the CVSupIT bug. Message-ID: <20020116172620.179CF48425@wastegate.net> In-Reply-To: <20020116050257.129345D13@ptavv.es.net>
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On Tue, 15 Jan 2002 21:02:57 -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: >> you can also type "shutdown now" instead of rebooting into single user >> mode b4 installing the world- it saves from running fsck, mounting etc >> etc etc > >While you can do a great many things in FreeBSD, this one is NOT a good >idea. The point of the reboot is to load the new kernel and make sure >it will boot before installing the world. an 'fsck -p' takes about 2 >seconds and 'mount -a -t ufs' takes a bit less. > >Once you have installed world, if the new kernel won't work you system >might not run properly with the old kernel and backing out the world >install is a major pain. > >The instructions in UPDATING were written to provide a safe, fairly >easy way to update a system. Think carefully of what you are doing >before diverging from them. well, in that case, if it doesn't work, it'll test your backups to see if they'll work :) --- doug reynolds | the maverick | mav@wastegate.net PGP Public Key Fingerprint: 6E7B 9993 B503 6D45 E33A 2019 26E5 C1DB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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