-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ivan Voras escribió: | Jeremy Chadwick wrote: |> On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 01:58:08PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote: |>> James López (BLuEGoD) wrote: |>> |>>> Not exactly.. What I mean is that I want to reinstall FreeBSD due to |>>> some accidentally deleted files and a behavior on sendfile :S |>>> So I would like to know if I can backup /boot and the overwrite it once |>>> I have freebsd installed again... |>> Yes. If you don't change FreeBSD versions or hardware, this will work.
In my case I have FreeBSD 7.0 and I will reinstall the same version :) Thanks for all :) |> Clarification: it _might_ work. |> |> You need to keep in mind that the kernel/modules he's backing up will |> very likely *not* match all the binaries he has on his disks, library |> calls, possibly system calls, etc. etc... This is why building world |> includes both all the binaries *as well* as the kernel. | | I agree, but I think this is covered by "not changing FreeBSD versions" :) | |> The reason I point this out is, when certain things in kernel-land |> change which certain programs rely upon (but haven't been recompiled to |> be aware of that change), odd things can happen. The most "famous" of |> the bunch is when top(1) or ps(1) start failing in bizarre ways. |> |> Thus, my point: it *probably* will work, but DO NOT assume that it will. | | To be even more precise, it will probably (with very high certainty) | work for two FreeBSD versions x1.y1 and x2.y2 if x1 == x2 and y1 <= y2. | It will probably also work for any combination of y1 and y2 as long as | x1 == x2. It will probably fail if x1 != x2. | - -- ~ ___ _ ___ ___ ___ _ _ ___ ~ | . >| | _ _ | __>/ _> ___ | . \ | \ | ___|_ _| ~ | . \| |_| | || _> |<_/\/ . \| | | _ | |/ ._>| | ~ |___/|___|___||___>____/\___/|___/<_>|_\_|\___.|_| ~ -- BLuEGoD (James LÛpez) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------- ~ -- Public Key: Search 'BLuEGoD' on www.keyserver.net ~ --------------- WwW.BLuEGoD.NeT -------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Darwin) iD8DBQFHz/hGACIwOm/T2YIRAvqNAKCkur2HdtKyuoilU9Q3i215H1IeuACePOdn +coxVhSAPeKfsnqi3rIQHow= =QmU2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"