From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 6 11:21:22 2003 Return-Path: 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 20B4216A4CE for ; Thu, 6 Nov 2003 11:21:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from lv.raad.tartu.ee (lv.raad.tartu.ee [194.126.106.110]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B12F943FE5 for ; Thu, 6 Nov 2003 11:21:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee) Received: Message by Barricade lv.raad.tartu.ee with ESMTP id hA6JLGGq010504; Thu, 6 Nov 2003 21:21:19 +0200 Message-Id: <200311061921.hA6JLGGq010504@lv.raad.tartu.ee> Received: from INFO/SpoolDir by raad.tartu.ee (Mercury 1.48); 6 Nov 03 21:21:45 +0200 Received: from SpoolDir by INFO (Mercury 1.48); 6 Nov 03 21:21:34 +0200 From: "Toomas Aas" Organization: Tartu City Government To: a@jenisch.at Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 21:21:26 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Priority: normal In-reply-to: <20031106105003.GA3394@athena.oekb.co.at> cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backing up kernel before upgrade - 4.9 - how? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2003 19:21:22 -0000 Hi! > In order to have a "safety belt" I'd like to backup my current kernel > before upgrading (i.e. "make installkernel") my newly compiled kernel. > > Which files do I need to back up? > > I thought about > > /kernel (file) > /modules (directory) Running make installkernel backs up your current /kernel as /kernel.old and /modules as /modules.old. The previous *.old is removed, so if you want to preserve *these*, you'll need to do it manually. -- Toomas Aas | toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/ * One can never know for sure what a deserted area looks like.