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Date:      Sat, 03 Mar 2001 08:41:18 -0800 (PST)
From:      "Duane H. Hesser" <dhh@androcles.com>
To:        Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG, nickhead@folino.com, dcs@newsguy.com, Bob Johnson <bob@eng.ufl.edu>
Subject:   Re: KERNCONF instead of KERNEL?
Message-ID:  <XFMail.010303084118.dhh@androcles.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010302105521.A29174@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>

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nextboot(8) might be a useful part of a remote upgrade strategy.

On 02-Mar-01 Brooks Davis wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 01:52:33PM -0500, Bob Johnson wrote:
>> You can't reboot to single user mode when you are doing a remote 
>> update.  He is specifically asking about the best way to do 
>> a remote update.  You have to do everything multiuser and accept 
>> the risk, but there is still the question of what order minimizes 
>> the risk.
> 
> The give one is it.  It's going to be pretty easy to talk a NOC monkey
> through booting the system on the old kernel, but damn near impossiable
> to get them through recovering a system with a busted kernel and a
> userland that won't work with the old one.
> 
> -- Brooks
> 
> -- 
> Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE.
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