make installworld in single user mode

John Birrell jb at cimlogic.com.au
Thu Sep 11 22:30:38 PDT 2003


On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 03:27:30PM +1000, zhao wrote:
> I have a question about "make"  command in single user mode.
> 
> When I am in the process of updating my FreeBSD4.3 release, I come to the
> stage of
> make installworld.
> People said it is a good way to do it in a single user mode.
> So I boot the system, and come to the point of 10 seconds counting, I press
> space bar,
> then then type "boot -s", coming into single mode, and the default shell is
> /bin/sh , and I press enter, then I type
> #make installworld
> I got an error message
> make: not found.
> 
> Under multi-user mode, I found "make " in /usr/bin, in this case, when I
> come to single user mode, I should change the default shell of "/bin/sh " to
> /usr/bin", and then issue command "make installworld", will that be the
> right process?

mount -u /
mount -a -t nonfs

Then do the make installworld.

-- 
John Birrell


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