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From: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@plains.nodak.edu>
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Subject: Re: Upgrading to 2.1.7 without using a floppy
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>  Mark Tinguely wrote:
>  > 
>  > Step 1: enter single user. (shutdown -now)
>  
>  In my message I wasn't clear enough about that I wanted the procedure
>  for a remote upgrade. Therefore, I cannot enter single user mode.
>  However, killing most processes except the critical ones, as I mentioned
>  in my message, should suffice.

yes, the install.sh unlinks existing files and that is exactly what you
want to do when you have running applications.

--mark.