Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 21:05:44 -0700 From: "Dan O'Connor" <dan@mostgraveconcern.com> To: "Warner Losh" <imp@village.org> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: upgrade 3.4 to 4.0 Message-ID: <013e01bfdbff$23956540$0200000a@danco>
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>: 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
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