Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 10:59:01 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>, Guy Van Sanden <n.b@myrealbox.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrade 5.0 to 5.1 Message-ID: <200308311059.01175.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <20030831085059.GA27051@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> References: <1062259088.2854.10.camel@cronos.home.vsb> <1062318011.7669.1.camel@cronos.home.vsb> <20030831085059.GA27051@falcon.midgard.homeip.net>
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On Sunday 31 August 2003 01:50 am, Erik Trulsson wrote: > On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 10:20:12AM +0200, Guy Van Sanden wrote: > > Hi Kent > > > > Thanks for your answers! > > I have one more question, the manual says to drop to single user > > mode before doing buildworld, do you do this. > > If I could avoid this, I could run buildworld during the night, and > > do installworld when it suits me during the daytime. > > There is absolutely no need to go to single user mode before a > buildworld/buildkernel. Never has been necessary either, AFAIK. > > Read the manual a bit more carefully and I think you will find out > that it agrees with me. In addition, the manual always tells you that /usr/src/UPDATING is the final reference and it only goes to single user mode to do the installworld. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html
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