Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 17:46:50 +0200 (CEST) From: Alban Hertroys <dalroi@solfertje.student.utwente.nl> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: upgrading Message-ID: <20030921154714.8DC89401@solfertje.student.utwente.nl> In-Reply-To: <20030921113847.GA48391@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On 21 Sep, Matthew Seaman hit a keyboard in the following places: > On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 01:13:11PM +0200, Alban Hertroys wrote: ... > Doing an installworld before you've verified that the kernel is > properly bootable could get you stuck up a gum tree -- there's no easy > way to undo a 'make installworld' and you'ld probably be forced to > recover the system from backup. However, you don't want the system to > boot all the way up to multiuser immediately as that would give you a > new kernel and an old world. Hence the reboot into single user step. Aha, thanks. Good to know I've been doing this the wrong way. > You can't pick up any NFS mounts in single user -- the network hasn't > been configured yet. But, yes, some people will want to be extra It won't mount them, true, but it will try. You'll be waiting for a network timeout unnecessarily... That's why I advised not to mount NFS mountpoints. Not because it would do any actual harm. -- Alban Hertroys http://solfertje.student.utwente.nl - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - If I had a sig it would be fun, The quest for the Holy Sig has begun. I have not yet a clue, What will you see next issue?
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