From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 26 02:17:44 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA13168 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 26 Jun 1997 02:17:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from coconut.blueberry.co.uk ([194.70.52.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA13160 for ; Thu, 26 Jun 1997 02:17:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nik@localhost) by coconut.blueberry.co.uk (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA02452; Thu, 26 Jun 1997 10:13:56 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <19970626101356.13640@blueberry.co.uk> Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 10:13:56 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: "\"\"A. Joseph Koshy\"\"" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: "make world" and re-making the kernel References: <199706260738.AA058550727@hplb.hpl.hp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.69e In-Reply-To: <199706260738.AA058550727@hplb.hpl.hp.com>; from ""A. Joseph Koshy"" on Thu, Jun 26, 1997 at 01:08:20PM +0530 Organization: Blueberry New Media Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi [Talking about http://www-local/technical/freebsd/upgrading-from-src.html] On Thu, Jun 26, 1997 at 01:08:20PM +0530, ""A. Joseph Koshy"" wrote: > I noticed that there was already a section "9" on compiling the kernel in > the tutorial. > > Basically I wanted to say that its recommended to rebuild/install the new > kernel before doing the reboot step in "8". Is it? I was under the impression that it's better off to reboot the system, so that all your 'make world' changes have definitely taken effect, and then re-build the kernel. Copied to -questions for informed comment. N -- --+=[ Blueberry Hill Blueberry New Media ]=+-- --+=[ http://www.blueberry.co.uk/ 1/9 Chelsea Harbour Design Centre, ]=+-- --+=[ WebMaster@blueberry.co.uk London, England, SW10 0XE ]=+-- --+=[ Contributing to the heat death of the Universe since 1973 ]=+--