From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Mar 1 10:43:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from hecubus.mx (CC2-1242.charter-stl.com [24.217.116.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DD0237B71A for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2001 10:43:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ajh3@chmod.ath.cx) Received: (from ajh3@localhost) by hecubus.mx (8.11.2/8.11.1) id f21IhUI27307 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Thu, 1 Mar 2001 12:43:30 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from ajh3) Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 12:43:30 -0600 From: Andrew Hesford To: FreeBSD-stable Subject: Re: KERNCONF instead of KERNEL? Message-ID: <20010301124330.A27288@cec.wustl.edu> References: <3A9E69E7.E4B354DE@magpage.com>; <3A9E69E7.E4B354DE@magpage.com> <20010301101941.C29805@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from aeverett@webintl.com on Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 12:33:52PM -0600 X-Loop: Andrew Hesford Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG My method has not failed so far: make buildworld >& buildworld.log & cd /sys/i386/conf && config -r HECUBUS #While buildworld runs cd ../../compile/HECUBUS && make depend all install #shutdown and boot to single user, using the old kernel that make #install archived. mount -a make installworld mergemaster #All done! This process always goes smoothly for me. On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 12:33:52PM -0600, Albert Everett wrote: > I'm in the habit (following the handbook) of doing things in a slightly > different order: > > make buildworld > go to single user with "shutdown now" > make installworld > mergemaster > make buildkernel > make installkernel > reboot > > Should this be a problem? I'd rather do the "make buildkernel" along with > "make buildworld" from a cron'd script if that's ok, to save me time in > front of the console in single user mode. From below, it sounds like it > might be ok. > > It depends on whether "make buildkernel" uses installed pieces from "make > installworld". > > Any definitive word here? > -- Andrew Hesford ajh3@chmod.ath.cx To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message