From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 15 19:48:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7D6337B400 for ; Tue, 15 Jan 2002 19:48:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from owt.com (owt-207-41-94-232.owt.com [207.41.94.232]) by rutger.owt.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA22433; Tue, 15 Jan 2002 19:48:27 -0800 Message-ID: <3C44F80A.8070104@owt.com> Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 19:48:26 -0800 From: Kent Stewart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011128 Netscape6/6.2.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Reynolds Cc: "Brian T.Schellenberger" , Kevin Oberman , "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" , Rodrigo A B Freire Subject: Re: Newbie: 4.4-stable, how to? - And the CVSupIT bug. References: <20020116034133.74EE848425@wastegate.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Doug Reynolds wrote: > On Tue, 15 Jan 2002 22:17:38 -0500, Brian T.Schellenberger wrote: > > >>>>Close and probably functional, but I would suggest: >>>>cvsup >>>>cd /usr/src >>>>make buildworld >>>>make kernel KERNCONF=your-custom-kernel >>>>reboot to single-user mode (boot -s ; fsck -p ; mount -a -t ufs) >>>>cd /usr/src >>>>make installworld >>>>mergemaster >>>>reboot. >>>> >>>you can also type "shutdown now" instead of rebooting into single user >>>mode b4 installing the world- it saves from running fsck, mounting etc >>>etc etc >>> >>. . . but it never seems to work for me for some reason. Though the failure >>I get escapes me at the moment. . . . >> > > that is no fun. always works good for me, also it lags a bit when > shutting everything down. Part of the reason for booting into single user mode is to test your new kernel before you fully commit and install the rest of userland. A shutdown now doesn't test your kernel and backing out a bad userland - kernel combo can be a clean install. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message