From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 11 17:34:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtp11.bellglobal.com (smtp11.bellglobal.com [204.101.251.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 493D6155BE for ; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 17:34:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vanderh@ecf.toronto.edu) Received: from localhost.nowhere (ppp18351.on.bellglobal.com [206.172.130.31]) by smtp11.bellglobal.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA18993; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 20:36:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from tim@localhost) by localhost.nowhere (8.9.3/8.9.1) id UAA38491; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 20:34:59 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from tim) Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 20:34:59 -0400 From: Tim Vanderhoek To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: Wes Peters , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Using legacy sysinstall to upgrade live system Message-ID: <19990811203459.B38401@mad> References: <37B2025A.778CCA59@softweyr.com> <33971.934413044@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95i In-Reply-To: <33971.934413044@axl.noc.iafrica.com>; from Sheldon Hearn on Thu, Aug 12, 1999 at 01:10:44AM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Aug 12, 1999 at 01:10:44AM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > I'll feel more comfortable about letting them shoot their feet off if > you can point out _any_ way in which it might be beneficial for them to > do so. :-) I suggest that it would be beneficial for you to let them shoot off their feet... I have used legacy sysinstall to upgrade a live multiuser system before and will probably do so again. In my dictionary, "bleet" translates to "warn". Just make sysinstall bleet as you originally offered and everyone will be happy. :-) Hmm... "bleet"'s not in esr's hacker dictionary. -- This is my .signature which gets appended to the end of my messages. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message