On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 07:38:33AM -0500, Jim Bloom wrote:
> Nik Clayton wrote:
> > On a related note, why does UPDATING say to build and install the kernel,
> > and then reboot, before doing the "installworld"? That contradicts the
> > advice in the Handbook (which I wrote), and I would've thought it's wrong
> > precisely because it allows for things like kernel/mount mismatches to
> > occur.
>
> Because the signal interface changed several months ago. If you ran
> installworld on an old kernel, the machine would panic part way through
> the install.
OK. That just about makes sense.
> It is almost impossible to do forward compatibility on
> major changes. I guess you need to update the handbook to reflect this
> change.
Not sure. As a corner case it should probably stay in UPDATING.
N
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