--On April 24, 2006 11:02:18 AM -0500 Jonathan Horne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
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?
I have done the complete process remotely, over ssh, without problems.
*However*, that is not the recommended procedure *and* I was doing it on a
new install where, if it failed, I could simply start over. I wouldn't
recommend it for production systems that are remotely located. The price
you pay for going to the server and using single-user mode is less than the
price you pay for doing it remotely *and* having it fail.
Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Adjunct Information Security Officer
University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu/
