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Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 13:12:44 -0400
To: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com>
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Subject: Re: how to add space
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At 11:14 AM 10/25/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> writes:
>
> > That's the difference between 'shutdown now' or doing what I was
> > thinking of, which is to reboot, hit the any key during the ten second
> > count down and issue 'boot -s' at the boot manager prompt.  Years of
> > updating machines to the latest -STABLE has engrained that into my
> > head as *the* way to get to single-user mode, but you're right:
> > 'shutdown now' works too.
>
>For updating to a new kernel, you definitely want to keep doing the
>whole shutdown-and-reboot, because you want to be booting under your
>*newly*built* kernel.

You're quite right, but the problem was how to get to the single-user mode 
before doing the upgrade... :)) Once the kernel is built and the build 
installworld is done one normally would shutdown and reboot - after 
updating all the relevant configuration files.
PJ



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