From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 5 13: 3:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from po4.wam.umd.edu (po4.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BD1D37C195 for ; Wed, 5 Jul 2000 13:03:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from culverk@wam.umd.edu) Received: from rac4.wam.umd.edu (root@rac4.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.144]) by po4.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA20210; Wed, 5 Jul 2000 16:01:59 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rac4.wam.umd.edu (sendmail@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rac4.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA09465; Wed, 5 Jul 2000 16:01:54 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (culverk@localhost) by rac4.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA09461; Wed, 5 Jul 2000 16:01:53 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: rac4.wam.umd.edu: culverk owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 16:01:53 -0400 (EDT) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver To: Gabriel Ambuehl Cc: Christoph Sold , Lysenko Alexey Victorovich , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Re[2]: I need Your advice In-Reply-To: <1418391775.20000705215909@buz.ch> 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 There is no way to change kernels without rebooting. You can update a 4-STABLE kernel and even recompile it without rebooting, but the changes that are compiled into your new kernel won't take effect until the next reboot. ================================================================= | Kenneth Culver | FreeBSD: The best NT upgrade | | Unix Systems Administrator | ICQ #: 24767726 | | and student at The | AIM: muythaibxr | | The University of Maryland, | Website: (Under Construction) | | College Park. | http://www.wam.umd.edu/~culverk/| ================================================================= On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Gabriel Ambuehl wrote: > Hello Christoph, > > Wednesday, July 05, 2000, 9:48:16 PM, you wrote: > > FreeBSD-3.5 is the final release of the previous version: there are > > still a lot of 3.x boxes in production, and you cannot update 3.x -> 4.x > > without reboot. > > Is there a way to update a 4-STABLE box with a new kernel without rebooting?!? > > > Best regards, > Gabriel > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message