Re: Upgrade 5.0 to 5.1

From: Kent Stewart (kstewart_at_owt.com)
Date: 08/31/03

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    To: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>, Guy Van Sanden <n.b@myrealbox.com>
    Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 10:59:01 -0700
    
    

    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

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