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Subject: RE: 5.3-STABLE ????
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vonleigh Simmons [mailto:nospam@illusionart.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 4:19 AM
> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: 5.3-STABLE ????
> 
> 
> Sorry, forgot to add that I did do a cvsup before the make buildworld.
> 
> > The relationship between the most commonly used CVS tags and OS
> > versions is like this at the moment:
> snip...
> >     RELENG_5_2    5.2.1-RELEASE-p11
> >     RELENG_5_3    5.3-RC1             (not official yet)
> 
> 	Sorry to hijack the thread. My box is running 5.2, and 
> I'd like to 
> upgrade it to 5.2.1. Problem is that the server is in a colo 
> so I only 
> have SSH access to it; because of this I can't drop into single user 
> mode.
> 
> 	So far I grabbed the stable sup file, changed it to 
> RELENG_5_2. After 
> that I ran
> # make -j4 buildworld
> # make -j4 buildkernel
> 
> 	But I'm not sure how to continue since I don't have 
> single user mode. 
> Anyone have any pointers, as the handbook doesn't say what to do in 
> this case.
> 
> Vonleigh Simmons
> <http://illusionart.com/>


Its not required to go to single user mode. I usually NEVER do in fact. Just
skip and continue on. Make very sure you follow the mergemaster steps
though.