On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 12:29:40AM +0300, Lauri Anteploon / ctrl-L wrote: > Hi. > Im running FreeBSD 5.3-Release #0 and would like to do buildworld and > buildkernel. > The problem is that the machine is a remote one. > Handbook states that to run "mergemaster" and "make installworld" I should > boot into single user mode. > That would mean that I can't access the machine remotely anymore am I > correct? > > Would it be okey to run make installworld when running in multiuser mode and > being the only person whos logged on and maby shutting down most of the > network services (leaving my sshd running though) ?
It's possible to do this if everything goes 100% right, but if not then you'll be left without a usable machine. You really want a serial console (and remotely-accessible power controller) for remote machines, so you can recover them even if you make a mistake. Kris
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