From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 26 9:24: 3 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA41C37B401 for ; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 09:24:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from mired.org (ip68-97-54-220.ok.ok.cox.net [68.97.54.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A3CEB43FA3 for ; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 09:23:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm-dated-1046712238.199f47@mired.org) Received: (qmail 32357 invoked from network); 26 Feb 2003 17:23:58 -0000 Received: from localhost.mired.org (HELO guru.mired.org) (127.0.0.1) by localhost.mired.org with SMTP; 26 Feb 2003 17:23:58 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15964.63533.520513.93985@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 11:23:57 -0600 To: Jim Trigg Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.7 Upgrade issue - Daniel Bye In-Reply-To: <20030226170922.GG46587@scadian.net> References: <20030226152725.0B4EB43F3F@mx1.FreeBSD.org> <20030226154635.GG55640@catflap.home.slightlystrange.org> <20030226170922.GG46587@scadian.net> X-Mailer: VM 7.07 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`; h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: Mike Meyer X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.70 (Pensive) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In <20030226170922.GG46587@scadian.net>, Jim Trigg typed: > On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 03:46:35PM +0000, Daniel Bye wrote: > > Yes, and the suggestions have been to follow the procedure in the handbook > > or the UPDATING file, as the buildworld process is carefully crafted to be > > done in that order. > I'm trying to minimize the amount that has to be done in single-user > mode (I don't have console access; I have to trust my hosting company's > tech support for that part). Is there any serious reason that mergemaster > needs to be run in single-user mode? No, there isn't. > Ideally, I'm trying to get something that needs no operator intervention > during single-user mode. Currently, if mergemaster can be run just > before booting into single-user mode, the operator needs to type one > command ("upgrade", a shell script in /root/bin which runs the fsck, > mount, swapon, cd, make installworld, and fastboot commands). If you really want, you can reboot multiuser on the new kernel, and run make installworld there. It's not tested, but I've done it successfully. I regularly boot multi-user, then drop back to single user to do installs from NFS-mounted /usr/src and /usr/obj. In fact, that's recommended at one place in the handbook. http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message