From owner-freebsd-stable Sat May 23 08:48:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA02656 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sat, 23 May 1998 08:48:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.kersur.net (root@mail.kersur.net [199.79.199.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA02651 for ; Sat, 23 May 1998 08:48:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dswartz@druber.com) Received: from manticore (manticore.druber.com [207.180.95.108]) by mail.kersur.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA22232; Sat, 23 May 1998 11:49:22 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19980523114803.009329a0@mail.kersur.net> X-Sender: druber@mail.kersur.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Sat, 23 May 1998 11:48:03 -0400 To: Sean-Paul Rees From: Dan Swartzendruber Subject: Re: make buildworld/installworld question Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <3.0.5.32.19980523095658.00924920@mail.kersur.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk At 08:38 AM 5/23/98 -0700, Sean-Paul Rees wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >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? > >You can, but it will go slower. that's okay. I just want to make sure it won't pooch things. the server in question is a 30-minute drive from where I am right now, and getting out there is not feasible right now. Thanks for the answer! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message