Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 17:59:34 -0500 From: Laurence Sanford <lauasanf@wilderness.homeip.net> To: "pobox@verysmall.org" <pobox@verysmall.org> Cc: Bob <bob@tania.servebbs.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: When is BuildWorld necessary? Message-ID: <450C81D6.2070503@wilderness.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <450C55FA.5070701@verysmall.org> References: <200609161541.38002.bob@tania.servebbs.org> <450C55FA.5070701@verysmall.org>
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pobox@verysmall.org wrote: > > But I have one question - do you rebuild the world on a remote machine > (without physical access) and if yes - how do you restart in single > user mode. This is what I can't understand so far. > > Thanks, > Iv In 6 years, I've never dropped any machine to single user to do any part of a buildworld upgrade. I've stopped many running services, but never gone to single user. The only time I had any problems with this approach was when I blindly flubbed versions in my supfile and cvsup'd a 6 system with 4 source. That wasn't pretty. But it would have been not pretty in single user mode as well.
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