Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 18:05:55 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Hill <chris@monochrome.org> To: Jonathan Horne <jhorne@dfwlp.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: learning to buildworld Message-ID: <20060424175947.R2518@tripel.monochrome.org> In-Reply-To: <53858.208.11.134.3.1145894538.squirrel@mail.dfwlp.com> References: <53858.208.11.134.3.1145894538.squirrel@mail.dfwlp.com>
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On Mon, 24 Apr 2006, Jonathan Horne wrote: > [...] the installworld comes while in single user mode, and my > production server would see quite a bit of downtime over this. Just a couple more data points. I have two machines, an elderly K6-2 running at 400 MHz and a relatively modern P4 running at 3.4 GHz. 'make installworld' takes about 8 minutes on the slow machine, and just a few seconds on the fast one. Point being that you needn't have much downtime for this. > ive seen several articles on the net, and of course, no one agrees on > the exact steps to take to update your system. my question is, is it > safe to 'mergemaster' and 'make installworld' while still up and > running? or do i just need to bite the downtime-bullet, and put it in > single user? That's what I would do, but it depends on how lucky you feel. There are ways to get to the console without traveling to the colo. HTH, and good luck. -- Chris Hill chris@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging <|> ]
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