From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 21 21: 5:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mostgraveconcern.com (mostgraveconcern.com [216.82.145.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5808337B8D0 for ; Wed, 21 Jun 2000 21:05:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@mostgraveconcern.com) Received: from danco (danco.mostgraveconcern.com [10.0.0.2]) by mostgraveconcern.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id VAA17153; Wed, 21 Jun 2000 21:05:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@mostgraveconcern.com) Message-ID: <013e01bfdbff$23956540$0200000a@danco> Reply-To: "Dan O'Connor" From: "Dan O'Connor" To: "Warner Losh" Cc: Subject: Re: upgrade 3.4 to 4.0 Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 21:05:44 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="x-user-defined" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >: 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? > >You can do it in multi-user mode. But any services that may be >running on the machine at time are going to be screwed up >potentially. Since you are rebooting right away, it likely won't >batter. Really? Cool! So, potentially, I can manually shut down all the daemon services (except sshd!) and do the 'make installworld' while still in multiuser mode? >However, you need to make sure that you have a way to boot >hte old kernel if bad things happen with the new one.. Well, I got bit by the ad driver's dislike of my old P90's IDE controller, so maybe remote upgrades aren't so good for major version updates... --Dan -- Dan O'Connor On Matters of Most Grave Concern http://www.mostgraveconcern.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message