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To: Joe.Warner@smed.com
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Subject: Re: Moving to STABLE - one quick question 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 31 Jan 2001 08:46:56 MST."
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Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 10:43:21 -0800
From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
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> From: Joe.Warner@smed.com
> Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 08:46:56 -0700
> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> 
> Quick question:
> 
> After synchronizing your source tree
> during the beginning process of moving
> from 4.2 RELEASE to 4.2 STABLE, is it
> all right to shut your machine down and
> then come back later, boot into single
> user mode and do "make world" ?

Quick answer: Yes

But you probably don't want to "make world". Read
/usr/src/UPDATING. The method of rebuilding the system recommended
there is much more likely to work correctly than a simple "make world"
and most of it can be done with the system up and running.

R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman@es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634


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