From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 14 18:22:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from orion.ac.hmc.edu (Orion.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0060637B80D; Wed, 14 Jun 2000 18:22:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brdavis@orion.ac.hmc.edu) Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by orion.ac.hmc.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA01625; Wed, 14 Jun 2000 18:22:23 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 18:22:23 -0700 From: Brooks Davis To: Chris Byrnes Cc: Stephen Montgomery-Smith , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: upgrade 3.4 to 4.0 Message-ID: <20000614182223.A525@orion.ac.hmc.edu> References: <39482C76.726EE546@math.missouri.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre4i In-Reply-To: ; from chris@jeah.net on Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 08:15:04PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 08:15:04PM -0500, Chris Byrnes wrote: > To update from 3.x to 4.0 stable > -------------------------------- > [3] > cd /usr/src > [2] > make buildworld > cd sbin/mknod > make install > cd ../../sys/modules > make install > > [1] > reboot > > cd /usr/src > cd gnu/usr.bin/texinfo/install-info > make install > cd ../../../.. > make installworld [5] > mergemaster [4] > reboot > > > > I hate to keep asking you questions, but like.. I cant login to the > machine in single-user mode.. it's a co-located box.. is there a way to > get around the things you have to do in single-user mode? As long as the box isn't busy, it should be save in multi-user mode. I'd recomend disabling what ever major services it provides before rebooting just to be on the safe side, but even that is probably unnecessicary. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message