[compiling & installing FreeBSD]

[John Nielsen]

On Monday 27 April 2009 11:42:15 am alligator424 at free.fr wrote:
> does "make installworld " do any backup of the files it touch? is any
> way to failback that "installworld"?

No. Restore from (your own) backups, installation media, or rebuild the 
world you need from appropriately-dated sources.

> I think I have read that "make installkernel" do a backup of the kernel
> in kernel.old but for the world I would like to know.

That is correct, but it is only the kernel (and modules) that are backed 
up this way.

JN