Re: Upgrade 5.0 to 5.1

From: Erik Trulsson (ertr1013_at_student.uu.se)
Date: 08/31/03

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To: Guy Van Sanden <n.b@myrealbox.com>

    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. 

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Erik Trulsson
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