Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 22:11:11 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: "Dan O'Connor" <dan@mostgraveconcern.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: upgrade 3.4 to 4.0 Message-ID: <200006220411.WAA86140@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 21 Jun 2000 21:05:44 PDT." <013e01bfdbff$23956540$0200000a@danco> References: <013e01bfdbff$23956540$0200000a@danco>
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In message <013e01bfdbff$23956540$0200000a@danco> "Dan O'Connor" writes: : Really? Cool! So, potentially, I can manually shut down all the daemon : services (except sshd!) and do the 'make installworld' while still in : multiuser mode? Yes. On my bouncer box, I just do a make installworld and I don't worry. For a production machine, I'd likely kill inetd, sendmail and httpd before doing this. ftpd too if necessary. : >However, you need to make sure that you have a way to boot : >hte old kernel if bad things happen with the new one.. : : Well, I got bit by the ad driver's dislike of my old P90's IDE controller, : so maybe remote upgrades aren't so good for major version updates... No. Bad idea. If you have 20 identical machines, then maybe the other 19 wouldn't be a bad risk. But on the first one, you should be there. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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