From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 23 09:54:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA18361 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 09:54:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alcatel.fr (ns.celwave.tm.fr [194.133.58.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA18301 for ; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 09:53:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from THIERRY.HERBELOT@telspace.alcatel.fr) From: THIERRY.HERBELOT@telspace.alcatel.fr Received: from alcatel.fr (gatekeeper-ssn.alcatel.fr [155.132.180.244]) by mailgate.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP.9.9.9) with ESMTP id RAA06557; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 17:14:14 +0200 Received: from aifhs1.alcatel.fr (aifhs1.alcatel.fr [155.132.180.86]) by aifhs2.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP2) with ESMTP id RAA21283; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 17:02:03 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from aifhs2.alcatel.fr (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by aifhs1.alcatel.fr (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA29997; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 17:04:42 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (lune.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.144.65]) by aifhs2.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP2) with ESMTP id RAA21265; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 17:02:00 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from telss1 (telss1.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.51.4]) by lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA25569; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 17:08:17 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from telspace.alcatel.fr by telss1 (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA13635; Thu, 23 Jul 98 16:56:50 +0200 Received: from localhost by telspace.alcatel.fr with SMTP (1.40.112.12/16.2) id AA050295529; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 16:52:09 +0200 X-Openmail-Hops: 1 Date: Thu, 23 Jul 98 16:51:58 +0200 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <19980723150252.19601@iii.co.uk> Subject: Re: Upgrading over the net..... (minimalist howto) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: nik@iii.co.uk Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, ni@tellique.de, wwoods@cybcon.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; name="Re:" Content-Disposition: inline; filename="Re:" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Thu, Jul 23, 1998 at 06:14:58AM -0700, William Woods wrote: > > It's too easy to think "These sources seem to be corrupt, I'll remove them > and install a fresh set." and then get that sinking feeling 30 minutes > later when you realise you blew away your kernel configuration file. I never thought of it, but you should indeed think it over before rm-ing your /usr/src (dear config files ...) TfH > N > -- > Work: nik@iii.co.uk | FreeBSD + Perl + Apache > Rest: nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk | Remind me again why we need > Play: nik@freebsd.org | Microsoft? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message