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Date:      Fri, 4 Jun 1999 13:45:04 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Todd Backman <tbackman@c523578-a.sttls1.wa.home.com>
To:        Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Fatal trap 12
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9906041342391.20188-100000@c523578-a.sttls1.wa.home.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9906041046280.12183-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>

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Forgive me if this is an ignorant question:

I thought the reason for booting to single user mode was to not have the
filesystems mounted?

Thanks.


On Fri, 4 Jun 1999, Doug White wrote:

> On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Todd Backman wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Would you happen to know how to get around the: "error opening terminal:
> > cons25." problem I am having when trying to run /stand/sysinstall from
> > single user?
> 
> Huh.  Did you mount your filesystems first?  /usr/share/misc/termcap
> appears to be missing.
> 
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Doug White wrote:
> > 
> > > On Mon, 31 May 1999, Todd Backman wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Thanks. Maybe the "Upgrade" option should be removed from
> > > > /stand/sysinstall??
> > > 
> > > No, more correctly it should not allow you to select the option if it
> > > detects that the system is in multiuser mode.  You can certainly do it if
> > > you shut the system down to single user or if you boot the boot floppies
> > > (like you're supposed to).
> > > 
> > > Doug White                               
> > > Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
> > > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | www.freebsd.org
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > =========================================================================
> > Todd Backman                               "there are two major products
> > <tbackman@c523578-a.sttls1.wa.home.com>     that came out of berkley: 
> > Geek and FreeBSD user                       lsd and unix.
> > Seattle, WA                                 we don't believe this to be 
> > "Chaos is a good teacher..."                a coincidence." j.s.anderson
> > =========================================================================
> > 
> 
> Doug White                               
> Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
> http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | www.freebsd.org
> 
> 

=========================================================================
Todd Backman                               "there are two major products
<tbackman@c523578-a.sttls1.wa.home.com>     that came out of berkley: 
Geek and FreeBSD user                       lsd and unix.
Seattle, WA                                 we don't believe this to be 
"Chaos is a good teacher..."                a coincidence." j.s.anderson
=========================================================================



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