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Date:      Fri, 30 Aug 2002 13:43:05 -0500
From:      "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net>
To:        Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Updating world with least downtime
Message-ID:  <20020830184305.GC11237@leviathan.inethouston.net>
In-Reply-To: <20020830113823.A31843@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
References:  <00af01c25054$3024aca0$04fea8c0@motorcity.on.ca> <20020830113823.A31843@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>

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On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 11:38:23AM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 02:36:43PM -0400, Derek wrote:
> > Hello,
> >     I intend to update the OS source on a primary server for my
> > company.  If I buildworld, and buildkernel, then drop to single
> > and installworld, and installkernel, will the kernel installed be
> > the same version as the world newly installed, or will it be the
> > version _currently_ installed on the machine?
> 
> It will be installed, but not booted unless you reboot after which is
> a very bad idea because if it fails, your world may not work with your
> old kernel..  You want to follow the instructions in /usr/src/UPDATING.
> If you do that, the only time you'll spend in single user mode is
> installworld and mergemaster.

You should be able to run installworld installkernel and mergemaster 
in multi-user depending on your securelevel.


-- 
David W. Chapman Jr.
dwcjr@inethouston.net	Raintree Network Services, Inc. <www.inethouston.net>
dwcjr@freebsd.org	FreeBSD Committer <www.FreeBSD.org>

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