i have begun spending a good deal of time researching and practicing the buildworld process on my dev boxes. i want to make sure i have the entire process down pat, before i attempt it on my production server.
the handbook states that i should: make buildworld make buildkernel make installkernel and then reboot to single usermode. the installworld comes while in single user mode, and my production server would see quite a bit of downtime over this. handbook says to, in sigle user mode: mergemaster -p make installworld mergemaster reboot ive seen several articles on the net, and of course, no one agrees on the exact steps to take to update your system. my question is, is it safe to 'mergemaster' and 'make installworld' while still up and running? or do i just need to bite the downtime-bullet, and put it in single user? my server is co-located, so its not exactly convenient to put it in single user mode, so if there is any reason to believe the whole processes can be completed safely without single-user mode, then i will probably try it. thanks, jonathan _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
