Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 16:22:45 -0500 From: "Doug Reynolds" <mav@wastegate.net> To: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@ptavv.es.net> Cc: "Brian T. Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org>, "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Rodrigo A B Freire" <bsdstuffs@brasilia.br> Subject: Re: Newbie: 4.4-stable, how to? - And the CVSupIT bug. Message-ID: <20020116212053.2F37448449@wastegate.net> In-Reply-To: <20020116175313.891BE5D13@ptavv.es.net>
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On Wed, 16 Jan 2002 09:53:13 -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: >> >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 :) > >It will also check out your adeptness in explaining to your boss why a >server was down for 3 hours while you restored the system (including >panicked investigation of whether there is a way to avoid the need to >restore, the time to load the backup tapes into the DLT's hopper, >and the time to actually restore 3 or 4 levels of dump). > >Of course, if it's just a test system, you might not care. And I'm >sure you always deploy updates on a test system before trying them on >any production system. :-) my production system is my test system- it just runs on a home network to receive mail etc. and i have a backup mail server, so it is just a good working experiment in progress :) --- 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
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