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Date:      Tue, 5 Jun 2001 22:04:26 -0700
From:      Seth Kingsley <sethk@osd.bsdi.com>
To:        Valentin Nechayev <netch@iv.nn.kiev.ua>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Jiangyi Liu <gzjyliu@public.guangzhou.gd.cn>
Subject:   Re: How to recompile kernel after minor changes?
Message-ID:  <20010605220426.A55274@meow.osd.bsdi.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010603131841.A460@iv.nn.kiev.ua>; from netch@iv.nn.kiev.ua on Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 01:18:41PM %2B0300
References:  <878zjb20fd.fsf@fatcow.home> <20010603101848.A990@iv.nn.kiev.ua> <20010603020220.A89269@dragon.nuxi.com> <20010603131841.A460@iv.nn.kiev.ua>

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On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 01:18:41PM +0300, Valentin Nechayev wrote:
>  Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 02:02:20, freebsd-hackers (David O'Brien - Hackers) wrote about "Re: How to recompile kernel after minor changes?": 

> > or ``make kernel''
> > and if you want to live dangerously ``make kernel-reinstall''.
> 
> You are right, it is dangerous because it does not copy current kernel
> to /boot/kernel/kernel.old. I need to do it by hands (install -c -fschg ...)

But then again, it is less dangerous in a certain sense when you are
installing over a kernel that isn't something you want to fall back on
as kernel.old. You don't want to preseve it using the regular 'make
install'.

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|| Seth Kingsley || BSDi/Open Source Division || sethk@osd.bsdi.com ||

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