From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Oct 18 2: 3:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net (albatross.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D546A37B405; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 02:03:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from blossom.cjclark.org (dialup-209.247.137.205.Dial1.SanJose1.Level3.net [209.247.137.205]) by albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id CAA15067; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 02:03:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.11.6/8.11.3) id f9I938m03179; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 02:03:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 02:03:08 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Kevin Oberman Cc: Christopher Schulte , Nuno Teixeira , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Major upgrade: 4.3R -> 4.4R - Any problem? Message-ID: <20011018020308.D373@blossom.cjclark.org> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <5.1.0.14.0.20011017093645.03ca8e30@pop.schulte.org> <200110171558.f9HFwhk18218@ptavv.es.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200110171558.f9HFwhk18218@ptavv.es.net>; from oberman@es.net on Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 08:58:43AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 08:58:43AM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: [snip] > installkernel and kernel are also totally safe in multiuser mode. That is not generally true. The 'installkernel' target will install new modules. Loading the new modules in the old, running kernel could make serious problems. -- Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message