From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Mar 23 15:51:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA15657 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Mon, 23 Mar 1998 15:51:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA15649 for ; Mon, 23 Mar 1998 15:51:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA27536; Mon, 23 Mar 1998 15:51:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) To: Studded cc: FreeBSD-Stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Important questions regarding the new slice code In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 23 Mar 1998 14:30:04 PST." <3516E26C.C8F6EA1D@dal.net> Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 15:51:46 -0800 Message-ID: <27531.890697106@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > I'm working on the final revision of the FOO.TXT stuff and it dawned on > me that I was unclear on something. Let's say that a user has a 2.2.5 > system with a customized 2.2.5 kernel, the "upgrade from sysintstall" > method will obviously update mount, but will it update the kernel? If > not, what are the possible repercussions? It will update the kernel in that it will splat the new GENERIC one right on top. If the user had heavily customized it, there will of course be repercussions. > I am planning to go with the following text regarding this issue in > IMPORTNT.TXT since Mike never got back to me with updated information. Hmmm. I agree that this should be covered, I'm just still not exactly sure where. Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message