On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 11:49:03AM +0000, David Jenkins wrote: > On Sun, 7 Nov 2004 00:59:50 -0500, Joseph H. Fry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks! So you can do everything in multiuser mode, or do you still > > have to drop to single user mode to actually install the new kernel and > > new system binaries? > > > > Also, does doing all of this bring me to the most recent stable release? > > (I noticed that 5.3 was released yesterday, presumably just after I > > downloaded 5.2.1). > > I've done it once in multiuser mode and it all went fine. I did read > somewhere that if you do have to do it this way because getting > physical access to the machine is difficult, then make sure you shut > down as many services/processes as you can. i.e just make sure sshd is > the only daemon running etc ... > > If you've used the correct TAG in your cvsup files and have cvsup'd > over the last day or so, then you should build 5.3-RELEASE.
Another alternative, if you have more than one unixoid machine in your
basement, is to set up your FreeBSD box to use a serial console, and
string a null-modem cable from it to another machine. On the second
machine you can use a terminal emulation program -- tip(1), kermit,
even Windows Hyperterm to access the serial console on the FreeBSD
box. This lets you drop to single user and still have remote access.
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serialconsole-setup.html
Cheers,
Matthew
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