Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 06:30:13 +0200 From: "pobox@verysmall.org" <pobox@verysmall.org> To: Laurence Sanford <lauasanf@wilderness.homeip.net> Cc: Bob <bob@tania.servebbs.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: When is BuildWorld necessary? Message-ID: <450CCF55.3080706@verysmall.org> In-Reply-To: <450C81D6.2070503@wilderness.homeip.net> References: <200609161541.38002.bob@tania.servebbs.org> <450C55FA.5070701@verysmall.org> <450C81D6.2070503@wilderness.homeip.net>
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Laurence Sanford wrote: > pobox@verysmall.org wrote: >> >> But I have one question - do you rebuild the world on a remote machine >> (without physical access) and if yes - how do you restart in single >> user mode. This is what I can't understand so far. >> >> Thanks, >> Iv > > In 6 years, I've never dropped any machine to single user to do any part > of a buildworld upgrade. I've stopped many running services, but never > gone to single user. The only time I had any problems with this approach > was when I blindly flubbed versions in my supfile and cvsup'd a 6 system > with 4 source. That wasn't pretty. But it would have been not pretty in > single user mode as well. I heard this from another place as well. It just sounds too scary for me at the moment... But may be when I feel more comfortable with the things and/or there is no other way. Thanks anyway for pointing that out! Iv. --
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