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Date:      Wed, 14 Jun 2000 20:27:19 -0500
From:      Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu>
To:        Chris Byrnes <chris@jeah.net>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: upgrade 3.4 to 4.0
Message-ID:  <394830F7.21F4C850@math.missouri.edu>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10006142013590.49082-100000@awww.jeah.net>

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Chris Byrnes wrote:
> 
>         To update from 3.x to 4.0 stable
>         --------------------------------
>         <see notes below>                               [3]
>         cd /usr/src
>         <see notes below>                               [2]
>         make buildworld
>         cd sbin/mknod
>         make install
>         cd ../../sys/modules
>         make install
>         <follow directions to build/install a kernel>
>         <follow rebuild disk /dev entries above>        [1]
>         reboot
>         <in single user>
>         cd /usr/src
>         cd gnu/usr.bin/texinfo/install-info
>         make install
>         cd ../../../..
>         make installworld                               [5]
>         mergemaster                                     [4]
>         reboot
>         <multi-user>
> 
> 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?
> 

I accidently didn't boot into single user mode at that time, and 
I found the machine unusable.

I don't remember why.  It might have been that the passwords 
did not work.  But I think it might have been something else.

-- 
Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Department of Mathematics, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211
Phone 573-882-4540, fax 573-882-1869
http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen  stephen@math.missouri.edu


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