Re: upgrading

From: Alban Hertroys (dalroi_at_solfertje.student.utwente.nl)
Date: 09/21/03

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    Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 17:46:50 +0200 (CEST)
To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>

    On 21 Sep, Matthew Seaman hit a keyboard in the following places:
    > On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 01:13:11PM +0200, Alban Hertroys wrote:
    ...

    > Doing an installworld before you've verified that the kernel is
    > properly bootable could get you stuck up a gum tree -- there's no easy
    > way to undo a 'make installworld' and you'ld probably be forced to
    > recover the system from backup. However, you don't want the system to
    > boot all the way up to multiuser immediately as that would give you a
    > new kernel and an old world. Hence the reboot into single user step.

    Aha, thanks. Good to know I've been doing this the wrong way.

    > You can't pick up any NFS mounts in single user -- the network hasn't
    > been configured yet. But, yes, some people will want to be extra

    It won't mount them, true, but it will try. You'll be waiting for a
    network timeout unnecessarily... That's why I advised not to mount NFS
    mountpoints. Not because it would do any actual harm. 

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