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At 1:44 PM -0800 1/12/05, Brooks Davis wrote:
>  >
>>  If a user is following the rules for upgrading, then the really
>>  important mergemaster run is done in single-user mode.  You do
>  > not have networking, you do not have NFS, you do not even have
>  > the any value set for `hostname`.  [...]
>
>Given the existance of /etc/netstart, I don't think this is a
>big deal.

Ah.  Yes, that does help a lot.

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Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu