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Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 22:50:35 -0500
To: John Merryweather Cooper <jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net>
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Subject: Re: make world every week?
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John Merryweather Cooper <jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net> types:
> On 2001.07.25 10:41 j mckitrick wrote:
> > | has changed.  Then I make world && make kernel
> > KERNCONF=your_kernel_config.
> > Pardon my ignorance, if I misunderstood, but I don't quite get something.
> > UPDATING says this:
> > 
> > This means installworld is done after installkernel.  In your above
> > statement, wouldn't installworld be done *before* installkernel?
> > 
> Just a shortcut.  It works for me, on my configuration, but it may very
> well break on yours.  YMMV.

The real downside is that if the kernel breaks when you boot it,
backing out an installworld is *much* harder than backing out an
installkernel. Hence installing the kernel, booting it to make sure it
works, then installing the world provides the easiest option for
backing out should the kernel fail.

	<mike
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