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Subject: Re: upgrading 5.4 -> 6.0 without reinstalling. safe ?
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On Wed, 09 Nov 2005 23:18:11 +0100, Michal 'max' Marciniak  
<max@felix.fizyka.amu.edu.pl> wrote:

> On Wed, 9 Nov 2005, Ronald Klop wrote:
>
>>> > 7. reboot into single-usermode and verify your new kernel works
>>>
>> How do you reboot into single-usermode from remote?
>> (Rebooting isn't really the problem, working in single-usermode is.)
>>
>>
>
> /etc/ttys
>
> # If console is marked "insecure", then init will ask for the root  
> password
> # when going to single-user mode.
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/boot-init.html#BOOT-SINGLEUSER

Yes, but I thought single-user mode doesn't have working networking, so  
how can you do remote single-user mode for upgrading your system?

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  Ronald Klop
  Amsterdam, The Netherlands