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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Subject: Re: conf/3123 reply2 
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The following reply was made to PR conf/3123; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
To: "Wayne M. Barnes" <wayne@barnes1.wustl.edu>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: conf/3123 reply2 
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 16:36:23 -0800

 >       Therefore I would just like to update from my installed system.
 > I am willing to run in single-user mode for this.  
 
 Just boot the installation boot floppy - you don't have to overwrite
 your entire system for this.
 
 > Can you just modify /stand/sysinstall to only perform an upgrade in
 > single-user mode?  I'm afraid I would still get the other problems
 > I reported ( about saving /etc and mounting nfs).  
 
 Hrm.  I'd really rather people just did it from the floppy, frankly! :-)
 
 					Jordan