Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 15:17:07 +0200 From: Matthias Buelow <mkb@incubus.de> To: Jim Campbell <jim-c@charter.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie Question About System Update Message-ID: <200504191317.j3JDH76H001458@drjekyll.mkbuelow.net> In-Reply-To: Message from Jim Campbell <jim-c@charter.net> of "Mon, 18 Apr 2005 19:51:20 EDT." <426447F8.5090209@charter.net>
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Jim Campbell <jim-c@charter.net> writes: >After that, I ran into problems. It took me a little while to figure >out how to do "boot -s". However, it appears that a lot of the >directories aren't mounted and the next scripts aren't in the path. For >example, I can't figure out how to do the "mergemaster -p". You don't have to do it in single user mode, I never did. I don't know why it is recommended that one boots in single user in the Makefile, perhaps to get a quiescent system without any users and services that would interfere. But that can also be achieved by stopping the high-volume services on the machine after booting, and on a personal machine (workstation PC) it doesn't matter anyways. Often it's not even possible to boot into single-user, for example if you don't have physical control over the machine (like in a co-lo situation). mkb.
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