From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Mar 2 5:45:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx11.nameplanet.com (mx11.nameplanet.com [62.70.3.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 28F5137B71A for ; Fri, 2 Mar 2001 05:45:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nickhead@folino.com) Received: 2 Mar 2001 13:45:31 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO www1.nameplanet.com) (192.168.2.41) by mail with SMTP; 2 Mar 2001 13:45:31 -0000 Received: (qmail 26194 invoked by uid 400); 2 Mar 2001 13:45:31 -0000 Date: 2 Mar 2001 13:45:31 -0000 Message-ID: <20010302134531.26192.qmail@www1.nameplanet.com> From: nickhead@folino.com To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: KERNCONF instead of KERNEL? Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG What is the prefered way to update a remote machine now? For years, I've run a make buildworld, installworld, cd /sys/i386/conf config, build and install a kernel, then reboot. All through telnet or ssh. I've never had problems in the past, and all goes well. Is there a better way to do this on a machine that you can't get to the console? Nick Folino On Fri, 2 Mar 2001 01:52:41 -0800 David O'Brien wrote: >On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 12:43:30PM -0600, Andrew Hesford wrote: >> 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 > >You obviously were not around for the Binutils 2.9.1 -> 2.10.0 upgrade >when I changed some of the ASM bits in the i386 kernel and 2.9.1 would no >longer understand the sources. (or you're on an Alpha) > >The other place this will bite you is if the kernel needs a newer version >of config(8) to build. We see this quite often in -CURRENT. > >Your method is *flawed* and *wrong*. Please listen to what those that >know what they are talking about have to say. > >-- >-- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > -- Get your firstname@lastname email for FREE at http://Nameplanet.com/?su To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message