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Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> At 10:17 AM -0700 2/7/05, M. Warner Losh wrote:
>>     [3] From the bootblocks, boot -s, and then do
>>         fsck -p
>>         mount -u /
>>         mount -a
>>         cd src
>>         adjkerntz -i        # if CMOS is wall time
>>     Also, when doing a major release upgrade, it is required that
>>     you boot into single user mode to do the installworld.
> 
> 
> To me, it seemed like a good idea to put all these steps (and a
> few others) in a source-file under /root.  That way I only have to
> type in one thing -- and I'm much less tempted to try short-cuts
> if there is only one thing to type in.

I agree. In that case perhaps nextboot could also be useful, as someone 
(jhb?) mentioned some time ago.


Cheers,

Panagiotis