From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 7 23:23:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kirk.giovannelli.it (kirk.giovannelli.it [194.184.65.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E54937B503 for ; Sat, 7 Oct 2000 23:23:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from suzy.masternet.it (modem45.masternet.it [194.184.65.105]) by kirk.giovannelli.it (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e986I5s44922 for ; Sun, 8 Oct 2000 08:18:06 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from gmarco@giovannelli.it) Message-Id: <5.0.0.25.0.20001008081828.02b70eb0@194.184.65.4> X-Sender: gmarco@194.184.65.4 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0 Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 08:26:15 +0200 To: questions@freebsd.org From: Gianmarco Giovannelli Subject: How to use softupdates on a single partition Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, Let's imagine I have a box with 4.x.x FreeBSD with only the / partition. How I can use SOFTUPDATES on it ? Some times ago it worked to something like : sync;sync;sync ... tuefs -n enable /dev/rda0s1a reboot -n It was not beautifull but it worked :-) Now the "r-device are not any longer used ( I think :-). So also trying booting in single user mode it always complain about the fs is in use... Uhm... The only way, I have found, is to boot with the repair CD and mount the fs (after copying some file here and there for making the right device) and then tune it. But it is a very annoying process... So... any simpler method ? And why not to use softupdates as an option in installing process ? Best Regards, Gianmarco Giovannelli , "Unix expert since yesterday" http://www.giovannelli.it/~gmarco http://www2.masternet.it To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message