From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 26 8:25:58 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 909D237B401 for ; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 08:25:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from sage-american.com (adsl-65-71-135-139.dsl.crchtx.swbell.net [65.71.135.139]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0943C43FE1 for ; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 08:25:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jackstone@sage-one.net) Received: from sagea (sagea.sage-american [192.168.0.3]) by sage-american.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with SMTP id h1QGPeFU099519; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 10:25:40 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from jackstone@sage-one.net) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20030226102540.01df1238@sage-one.net> X-Sender: jackstone@sage-one.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 10:25:40 -0600 To: dan@slightlystrange.org, "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG " From: "Jack L. Stone" Subject: Re: 4.7 Upgrade issue - Daniel Bye In-Reply-To: <20030226154635.GG55640@catflap.home.slightlystrange.org> References: <20030226152725.0B4EB43F3F@mx1.FreeBSD.org> <20030226152725.0B4EB43F3F@mx1.FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.3 required=4.5 tests=IN_REP_TO,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_05_08 version=2.44-sageamerules_v1 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 At 03:46 PM 2.26.2003 +0000, Daniel Bye wrote: >On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 03:13:30PM +0000, rew wrote: >> >> I upgraded my system several times before, >> >> are you saying that one is unable to run successfuly 'make installworld' until the new kernel is booted? > >I am saying that according to the authors of the handbook, there is a >particular order to follow when upgrading your system. Any deviation away >from this procedure is likely to lead to problems. > You do NOT have to boot the new kernel before running "make installworld" HOWEVER, it is recommended that you do boot the new kernel before proceding just to test it. If there is a problem with the new kernel, you can still revert back to the old and start over. Best regards, Jack L. Stone, Administrator SageOne Net http://www.sage-one.net jackstone@sage-one.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message