Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 12:17:30 -0400 From: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: learning to buildworld Message-ID: <17484.64026.29680.54909@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <53858.208.11.134.3.1145894538.squirrel@mail.dfwlp.com> References: <53858.208.11.134.3.1145894538.squirrel@mail.dfwlp.com>
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Jonathan Horne writes: > ive seen several articles on the net, and of course, no one > agrees on the exact steps to take to update your system. my > question is, is it safe to 'mergemaster' Yes. > and 'make installworld' while still up and running? Absolutely not. (Has someone, somewhere, done it? Yes. Would I do it even for an experiemental machine? Only if you put a gun to my head.) > or do I > just need to bite the downtime-bullet, and put it in single user? The "downtime-bullet" can be pretty small: it takes me 15 < T < 30 minutes on a P4/2.25 Ghz with 80 Mb/s SCSI disks. Robert Huff
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