From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 8 11:39:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta6.snfc21.pbi.net (mta6.snfc21.pbi.net [206.13.28.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61C8137B6A4 for ; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 11:39:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from xor.obsecurity.org ([64.165.226.103]) by mta6.snfc21.pbi.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.2000.01.05.12.18.p9) with ESMTP id <0G8E008PUK8DYC@mta6.snfc21.pbi.net> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 11:45:49 -0800 (PST) Received: by xor.obsecurity.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4839866B62; Wed, 07 Feb 2001 11:48:32 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 11:48:32 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: Multiple kernels In-reply-to: ; from mkoivist@nortelnetworks.com on Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 02:35:21PM -0500 To: Matthew Koivisto Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Message-id: <20010207114832.A30983@mollari.cthul.hu> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="yrj/dFKFPuw6o+aM" Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i References: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --yrj/dFKFPuw6o+aM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 02:35:21PM -0500, Matthew Koivisto wrote: > Thnxs a lot,=20 > Now I have another question :) > There's not really a clear how-to out there on upgrading a freeBSD system= (I > didn't install 4.1, someone else did) I've seen warning about not bulidin= g a > new (ie 4.2) kernel from a system running 4.1. I don't really understand, > how else are you supposed to build a 4.2 kernel? Or am I just dumb and not > understanding this warning? You can build it (and indeed have to, as you point out), but shouldn't run it unless you upgrade your world at the same time. It's not likely anything catastrophic will happen unless you are going across major release numbers (2.x/3.x/4.x, etc), but chances are a lot of system utilities will not work, and may cause your system to crash in extreme cases. Kris --yrj/dFKFPuw6o+aM Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6gaaQWry0BWjoQKURAsEeAKD8lzJSP8CJFbBuPmVbFGKe54xZVACgx5J0 yaJVHUNqhwkXeEcHMHWF01U= =wHKe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --yrj/dFKFPuw6o+aM-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message