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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>
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	Jiangyi Liu <gzjyliu@public.guangzhou.gd.cn>
Subject: Re: How to recompile kernel after minor changes?
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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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