Date: Sat, 23 May 1998 17:14:53 -0500 (CDT) From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com> To: Dan Swartzendruber <dswartz@druber.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make buildworld/installworld question Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980523171007.10022O-100000@shell.futuresouth.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980523095658.00924920@mail.kersur.net>
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On Sat, 23 May 1998, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: > > Until now, when I've been updating, I been doing like the "Making the world" > your own tutorial on www.freebsd.org. I.e. for the build server, going to > single-user mode, doing make buildworld, make installworld, building a new > kernel and rebooting. For the clients, going single-user, mounting /usr/src > and /usr/obj via NFS and doing make reinstall. Here's my question: do I > really need to go single-user? It makes the downtime significantly greater > (particularly for the build server). Will Bad Things happen if I do the > make installworld on a live box? Doing a buildworld on a live machine is no problem, since it doesn't really change anything. It'll slow down the rest of the machine a good bit, but other than that, it doesn't have any real affects. It's probably not the best idea to do an installworld on a machine when it's working too much, but if it's fairly quiet, there's no real problems. All the machines here we do an installworld off a central build server, so they go down just long enough to reboot. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* | FreeBSD; the way computers were meant to be | * "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is * | that I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet."| * fullermd@futuresouth.com :-} MAtthew Fuller * | http://keystone.westminster.edu/~fullermd | *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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