From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Nov 10 9:48:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from smtp03.primenet.com (smtp03.primenet.com [206.165.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3F7137B479 for ; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 09:48:43 -0800 (PST) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp03.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA14549; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 10:46:48 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr08.primenet.com(206.165.6.208) via SMTP by smtp03.primenet.com, id smtpdAAAlhaWtC; Fri Nov 10 10:46:39 2000 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr08.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA22290; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 10:48:29 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200011101748.KAA22290@usr08.primenet.com> Subject: Re: The shared /bin and /sbin bikeshed To: dillon@earth.backplane.com (Matt Dillon) Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 17:48:28 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert), peter@netplex.com.au (Peter Wemm), imp@village.org (Warner Losh), arch@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <200011101654.eAAGsGu18423@earth.backplane.com> from "Matt Dillon" at Nov 10, 2000 08:54:16 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > :I had a similar experience with FreeBSD, when the kernel.ko > :stuff went in, and when I accidently trashed /kernel. > > Backup kernels are easy. Backup dynamic shared libraries are not. The "kernel.ko stuff" includes the modified boot loader crap. Backup shared libraries are easy; backup bootblock are not. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message