Newbie Question About System Update

[Michael C. Shultz]

On Monday 18 April 2005 04:51 pm, Jim Campbell wrote:
> I've been away from *NIX a few years.  I have been playing with FreeBSD
> for a week or so now with mixed results.  I am using release 4.11
> because for some reason 5.3 has problems seeing my hard drives.  4.11,
> Red Hat Linux and NetBSD have no such trouble.
>
> This afternoon I used the "Updating Sources with CVSup" in the FreeBSD
> Cheat Sheets and everything worked as advertized.  I believe that it
> advised against using "make world" and suggested that I use "19.4.1 The
> Canonical Way to Update Your System" in the Handbook.  I went through
> the following steps with no problem:
>
>  # make buildworld
>  # make installworld
>  # mergemaster
>  # reboot

This is how I do it:

>  # make buildworld
>  # make buildkernel
>  # make installkernel
>  # reboot
>  # make installworld
>  # mergemaster
>  # reboot

-Mike