Upgrade 5.0 to 5.1

Guy Van Sanden n.b at myrealbox.com
Sun Aug 31 11:23:31 PDT 2003


Thanks, I hoped it would be so.

Chapter 21 of the handbook is not entirely clear about this, it does
seem to recommend dropping to single user mode before building...

I'll try it without anyway :-)

On Sun, 2003-08-31 at 10:50, 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.



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