On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 08:53:39AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 02:04:21AM +0400, Yar Tikhiy wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 10:38:26AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > > > I guess I'm not creative enough in the ways I've screwed up my systems > > > and needed tools from /rescue. 8-) > > > > Just try to installworld FreeBSD/amd64 over a running FreeBSD/i386. ;-) > > I strongly feel that shouldn't be supported on a live system. So to me
We already got that possibility for free along with src/Makefile.inc1#1.590, so no particular efforts are needed to support it. > it shouldn't be an excuse to put a duplicated copy of /usr/[s]bin into > /rescue. It's an exaggeration. The most of /usr/[s]bin aren't in /rescue yet. :-) > It is a delicate thing to get right - and there are easy ways to do it > today: > > Boot from disc1; mount / and /usr; mv /mnt/etc /mnt/etc.hold; rm -rf the > bits in bin,sbin,libexec; then run the install.sh from the disc1; mv > /mnt/etc /mnt/etc.new ; mv /mnt/etc.hold /mnt/etc One of the things I love FreeBSD for is being able to do things in different ways and to choose such a way depending on the case. :-) E.g., one may want to go from CURRENT/arch1 to CURRENT/arch2 without having to install a binary release or snapshot for arch2 first. -- Yar _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
