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  • From: Dufflebunk <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net>
  • To: jason AT flattfamily.com
  • Cc: sm-discuss <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Stable grimoire update
  • Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 12:30:18 -0000

My problem was the network not coming up, but that bug has been fixed I
imagine (ifconfig problem). I'd say to allocate 2 hours just in case
something really bad happens... but it only took me 1 hour with all the
recasting and debugging the network script problem.

On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 21:13, Jason Flatt wrote:
> On Tuesday 02 September 2003 03:30 pm, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> >
> > I've been running the devel grimoire, but I rarely recast spells, so I'm
> > still using the old init system. How much time should I allocate to
> > conversion, including possible mishaps?
> >
> > phma
>
>
> Really, if everything goes well, you should be able to have it done in
> under
> half an hour. If you recast everything involved (coreutils, etc.) it might
> take as long as an hour.
>
> It doesn't hurt to take it slow and double check every thing before running
> tshutdown. I think the biggest thing that has gotten the most people, is
> the
> failure to run lilo after modifying lilo.conf. So read through the
> instructions before starting, while doing the change over and one last time
> before rebooting.
>
> The time it takes to recover from possible mishaps is a real wild card.
> With
> help available from IRC, that time could be minimal. Trying to figure it
> out
> on your own or with e-mail, it could be days.





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