From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 19 13:16:59 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC35116A4CE for ; Tue, 19 Apr 2005 13:16:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: from luzifer.incubus.de (incubus.de [80.237.207.83]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A073543D41 for ; Tue, 19 Apr 2005 13:16:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mkb@mkbuelow.net) Received: from drjekyll.mkbuelow.net (p3E9E2B74.dip.t-dialin.net [62.158.43.116]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by luzifer.incubus.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EAD333CB4; Tue, 19 Apr 2005 15:16:53 +0200 (CEST) Received: from drjekyll.mkbuelow.net (mkb@localhost.mkbuelow.net [127.0.0.1]) by drjekyll.mkbuelow.net (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j3JDH76H001458; Tue, 19 Apr 2005 15:17:07 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mkb@drjekyll.mkbuelow.net) Message-Id: <200504191317.j3JDH76H001458@drjekyll.mkbuelow.net> From: Matthias Buelow To: Jim Campbell In-Reply-To: Message from Jim Campbell of "Mon, 18 Apr 2005 19:51:20 EDT." <426447F8.5090209@charter.net> X-Mailer: MH-E 7.82; nmh 1.0.4; GNU Emacs 21.3.1 Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 15:17:07 +0200 Sender: mkb@mkbuelow.net cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie Question About System Update X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 13:17:00 -0000 Jim Campbell 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.