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Date:      Sat, 26 Jan 2002 08:42:20 +0100
From:      Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
To:        Doug Reynolds <mav@wastegate.net>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Patrick Fish (patrick@pwhsnet.com)" <patrick@pwhsnet.com>
Subject:   Re: 4.4-RELEASE to 4.4-STABLE
Message-ID:  <20020126074219.GA43298@student.uu.se>
In-Reply-To: <20020126072749.C8C704844F@wastegate.net>
References:  <008501c1a61b$1be22da0$2300a8c0@zeus> <20020126072749.C8C704844F@wastegate.net>

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On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 02:29:51AM -0500, Doug Reynolds wrote:
> 
> cvsup
> 
> make buildworld
> make kernel KERNCONF=yourkernelconf
> reboot
> boot single user mode by hitting the space and typing boot -s and
> enter. hit enter when it asks you for the shell; then:
> fsck -p
> umount -a

This umount seems quite unnecessary since if you just rebooted into
single-user mode the only thing mounted will be / which is mounted
read-only.  OTOH one thing you probably do want here instead is

swapon -a

to make sure that any swapspace you have can be used.
(I once forgot that on a memory-poor machine.  The installworld died
 halfway through with an out-of-memory error.)

> mount -a
> 
> make installworld
> mergemaster
> reboot
> 
> that'll up you to the latest.
> 
> (btw, if anyone sees any safely problems with this order, lemme know,
> seems totally redundant)

Redundant? No.  You can usually skip the 'reboot into single-user mode'
part without any ill-effects but that is about it.


-- 
<Insert your favourite quote here.>
Erik Trulsson
ertr1013@student.uu.se

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