From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Mar 2 22:21:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B839337B71A for ; Fri, 2 Mar 2001 22:21:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f236Lgd61682; Fri, 2 Mar 2001 23:21:44 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Message-Id: <200103030621.f236Lgd61682@harmony.village.org> To: nickhead@folino.com Subject: Re: KERNCONF instead of KERNEL? Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "02 Mar 2001 13:45:31 GMT." <20010302134531.26192.qmail@www1.nameplanet.com> References: <20010302134531.26192.qmail@www1.nameplanet.com> Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 23:21:42 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20010302134531.26192.qmail@www1.nameplanet.com> nickhead@folino.com writes: : What is the prefered way to update a remote machine now? For years, I've run a : make buildworld, installworld, cd /sys/i386/conf config, build and install a : kernel, then reboot. All through telnet or ssh. I've never had problems in : the past, and all goes well. Is there a better way to do this on a machine : that you can't get to the console? drive to the location of the machine. Your method will often fail for major releases. I know that I had to walk over to the console of my 3.x machine to reboot in 4.x single user so I could do the upgrade. The 4.x binaries wouldn't run on the 3.x kernel due to the signal changes. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message