From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 6 10: 3:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from s8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B8F514DFF for ; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 10:03:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from localhost (jcw@localhost) by s8-37-26.student.washington.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA75991; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 22:01:12 GMT (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) X-Authentication-Warning: s8-37-26.student.washington.edu: jcw owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 22:01:12 +0000 (GMT) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jcw@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu Reply-To: "Jason C. Wells" To: J McKitrick Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: is this just a rumor about kernel installs? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, J McKitrick wrote: >*Somewhere* i thought i saw someone say that the a new FreeBSD kernel can >be installed without rebooting. This isn't really possible, is it? Could >the person have meant compile, not install? The kernel _IS_ installed before you reboot while the machine is running. This does not mean the kernel is loaded into memory though. It just sits there on the disc until root reboots. Read the handbook on building kernels. The last step is 'make install'. Thank You, | http://students.washington.edu/jcwells Jason Wells | "Those who would trade freedom for security deserve neither | freedom nor security." - Benjamin Franklin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message