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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!news.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!gatech!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How to change kernel, easy, but I am stupid Date: 30 Apr 1996 07:09:38 GMT Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4m4ebi$5k3@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <31820ac8.3482557@news.seed.net.tw> <3181F07F.41C67EA6@home.ifx.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 "Robert L. Hatch" <rlhatch@home.ifx.net> writes: >Your best bet is to use the "cp" command as follows: > > cp kernel.old kernel > >This will copy kernel.old to kernel. Except that it won't work if everything is ``standard''. :-) Better: chflags noschg /kernel mv /kernel /kernel.save-this-sucker-if-you-want mv /kernel.old /kernel shutdown -r now 'Better reboot again' -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)