From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 16 9:26: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.mx.pitdc1.stargate.net (smtp1.mx.pitdc1.stargate.net [206.210.69.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 92AD437B41C for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 09:26:01 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 19493 invoked from network); 16 Jan 2002 17:26:00 -0000 Received: from dap-209-166-135-77.nfas.greensburg-tnt-1.sns234.pa.stargate.net (HELO wastegate.net) (209.166.135.77) by smtp1.mx.pitdc1.stargate.net with SMTP; 16 Jan 2002 17:26:00 -0000 Received: from mother.wastegate.net (mother.wg.local [192.168.1.2]) by wastegate.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 179CF48425; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 12:26:20 -0500 (EST) From: "Doug Reynolds" To: "Kevin Oberman" Cc: "Brian T. Schellenberger" , "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" , "Rodrigo A B Freire" Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 12:28:12 -0500 Reply-To: "Doug Reynolds" X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.20.2380) For Windows 98 (4.10.2222) In-Reply-To: <20020116050257.129345D13@ptavv.es.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Newbie: 4.4-stable, how to? - And the CVSupIT bug. Message-Id: <20020116172620.179CF48425@wastegate.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 15 Jan 2002 21:02:57 -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: >> you can also type "shutdown now" instead of rebooting into single user >> mode b4 installing the world- it saves from running fsck, mounting etc >> etc etc > >While you can do a great many things in FreeBSD, this one is NOT a good >idea. The point of the reboot is to load the new kernel and make sure >it will boot before installing the world. an 'fsck -p' takes about 2 >seconds and 'mount -a -t ufs' takes a bit less. > >Once you have installed world, if the new kernel won't work you system >might not run properly with the old kernel and backing out the world >install is a major pain. > >The instructions in UPDATING were written to provide a safe, fairly >easy way to update a system. Think carefully of what you are doing >before diverging from them. well, in that case, if it doesn't work, it'll test your backups to see if they'll work :) --- doug reynolds | the maverick | mav@wastegate.net PGP Public Key Fingerprint: 6E7B 9993 B503 6D45 E33A 2019 26E5 C1DB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message