From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 13 13:10: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE4AE37B41A for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 13:10:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=mailhost.raggedclown.net) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16b6f3-00061K-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 21:09:53 +0000 Received: from angel.raggedclown.net (angel.raggedclown.intra [192.168.1.7]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [buffy]) with ESMTP id AC6BC13040 for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 22:09:52 +0100 (CET) Received: by angel.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Host [angel], from userid 1001) id C067122590; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 22:09:51 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 22:09:51 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Using MergeMaster/ Release-to-Stable Process? Message-ID: <20020213210951.GA857@raggedclown.net> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20020213124225.01bd2ec0@pop.earthlink.net> <5.1.0.14.2.20020213133816.01b53a00@pop.earthlink.net> <20020213184553.GA1009@raggedclown.net> <3C6ACED4.8010708@owt.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3C6ACED4.8010708@owt.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 12:38:44PM -0800, Kent Stewart wrote: > > > Cliff Sarginson wrote: > > >On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 01:38:51PM -0500, B.K. DeLong wrote: > > > >>At 11:59 AM 02/13/2002 -0600, you wrote: > >> > >>>Oh, on the reboot... you should be dropping to single user before > >>>installworld.... > >>> > >>So should I reboot before installworld ? or make sure no one's on except > >>my one login? > >> > >> > >A drop to single user mode is enough. > >This knocks out all the processes running that could possibly > >interfere with the installworld. > > > It may be enough; however, one of the reasons for rebooting is to test > the new kernel before you change your userland. Dropping into single > user mode doesn't do this. Once you have installed the world, recovery > can be a clean install. I take the point... :) -- Regards Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message