From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 21 6:26:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from merlin.prod.itd.earthlink.net (merlin.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.120.156]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72EC637B9F4 for ; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 06:26:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eogren@rod.darktech.org) Received: from rod.darktech.org (ip160.cambridge2.ma.pub-ip.psi.net [38.32.112.160]) by merlin.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3-EL_1_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id GAA27127; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 06:26:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from eogren@localhost) by rod.darktech.org (8.10.1/8.9.3) id e6LDQWq01031; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 09:26:32 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from eogren) Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 09:26:32 -0400 From: Eric Ogren To: "Dan O'Connor" Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: 'make buildkernel' revisited (uh oh!) Message-ID: <20000721092632.A1016@earthlink.net> References: <02ad01bff207$cbfe5980$0200000a@danco> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <02ad01bff207$cbfe5980$0200000a@danco>; from dan@mostgraveconcern.com on Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 10:03:08PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 10:03:08PM -0700, Dan O'Connor wrote: > My question is: When using buildkernel in a make world, should the kernel be > built before installworld (Proc 3) or can buildkernel be done *after* > installworld (Proc 4)? Both ways work fine. As long as you run a buildworld before [build|install]kernel, everything should work. Which is more advisable is just personal preference. There are some people who want to make sure the new kernel boots & doesn't kill any hardware before updating their userland, so they would probably [build|install]kernel, make sure everything's OK, then installworld. If you don't care about this (for example, you're running on a relatively expendable box), then you could just make installworld && make buildkernel KERNEL=FOO && make installkernel KERNEL=FOO. Eric To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message