From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 18 9:37:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from c527597-a.cstvl1.sfba.home.com (c527597-a.cstvl1.sfba.home.com [24.176.204.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21F8E37B407; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 09:37:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bmah@localhost) by c527597-a.cstvl1.sfba.home.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f9IGbbs16420; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 09:37:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bmah) Message-Id: <200110181637.f9IGbbs16420@c527597-a.cstvl1.sfba.home.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu Cc: Kevin Oberman , Christopher Schulte , Nuno Teixeira , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Major upgrade: 4.3R -> 4.4R - Any problem? In-Reply-To: <20011018020308.D373@blossom.cjclark.org> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20011017093645.03ca8e30@pop.schulte.org> <200110171558.f9HFwhk18218@ptavv.es.net> <20011018020308.D373@blossom.cjclark.org> Comments: In-reply-to "Crist J. Clark" message dated "Thu, 18 Oct 2001 02:03:08 -0700." From: "Bruce A. Mah" Reply-To: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG X-Face: g~c`.{#4q0"(V*b#g[i~rXgm*w;:nMfz%_RZLma)UgGN&=j`5vXoU^@n5v4:OO)c["!w)nD/!!~e4Sj7LiT'6*wZ83454H""lb{CC%T37O!!'S$S&D}sem7I[A 2V%N&+ X-Image-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/Images/bmah-cisco-small.gif X-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_-368641951P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 09:37:37 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --==_Exmh_-368641951P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii If memory serves me right, "Crist J. Clark" wrote: > On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 08:58:43AM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: > [snip] > > > installkernel and kernel are also totally safe in multiuser mode. > > That is not generally true. The 'installkernel' target will install > new modules. Loading the new modules in the old, running kernel could > make serious problems. You have a point, but usually people don't load modules in the middle of updating their base system. At least, I hope not. :-) Bruce. --==_Exmh_-368641951P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.3.1+ 05/14/2001 iD8DBQE7zwVR2MoxcVugUsMRAoojAKDTkaLyThxdhu5x4qudqRAlXL/5/QCg+8Lt axgvpAoUuujPL67zPiqzzF0= =XVfF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_-368641951P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message