Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 13:43:05 -0500 From: "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Updating world with least downtime Message-ID: <20020830184305.GC11237@leviathan.inethouston.net> In-Reply-To: <20020830113823.A31843@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <00af01c25054$3024aca0$04fea8c0@motorcity.on.ca> <20020830113823.A31843@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
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On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 11:38:23AM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote: > On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 02:36:43PM -0400, Derek wrote: > > Hello, > > I intend to update the OS source on a primary server for my > > company. If I buildworld, and buildkernel, then drop to single > > and installworld, and installkernel, will the kernel installed be > > the same version as the world newly installed, or will it be the > > version _currently_ installed on the machine? > > It will be installed, but not booted unless you reboot after which is > a very bad idea because if it fails, your world may not work with your > old kernel.. You want to follow the instructions in /usr/src/UPDATING. > If you do that, the only time you'll spend in single user mode is > installworld and mergemaster. You should be able to run installworld installkernel and mergemaster in multi-user depending on your securelevel. -- David W. Chapman Jr. dwcjr@inethouston.net Raintree Network Services, Inc. <www.inethouston.net> dwcjr@freebsd.org FreeBSD Committer <www.FreeBSD.org> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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