On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 11:47:42AM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: > Greg Byshenk wrote: > > Andrei Kolu wrote: > > > NOTE: I do not reboot my system until everything is updated. Why it is > > > necessary to boot new kernel and then upgrade world is beyound me..YMMW > > > > - I suppose that it is not strictly necessary to reboot between > > installing kernel and world, but I always do so. > It _is_ necessary. If you don't reboot, you're still running > the old kernel which might not be able to support new binaries > and libraries that installworld will install on your system.
Of course this is correct; my error. The chance of something going wrong in this case is probably quite small, but it something does go wrong it can go horribly wrong. -- greg byshenk - gbysh...@byshenk.net - Leiden, NL _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
