upgrading 5.4 -> 6.0 without reinstalling. safe ?

[Ruslan Ermilov]

On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 11:48:13PM +0100, Ronald Klop wrote:
> On Wed, 09 Nov 2005 23:18:11 +0100, Michal 'max' Marciniak  
> <max at felix.fizyka.amu.edu.pl> wrote:
> 
> >On Wed, 9 Nov 2005, Ronald Klop wrote:
> >
> >>>> 7. reboot into single-usermode and verify your new kernel works
> >>>
> >>How do you reboot into single-usermode from remote?
> >>(Rebooting isn't really the problem, working in single-usermode is.)
> >>
> >>
> >
> >/etc/ttys
> >
> ># If console is marked "insecure", then init will ask for the root  
> >password
> ># when going to single-user mode.
> >
> >http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/boot-init.html#BOOT-SINGLEUSER
> 
> Yes, but I thought single-user mode doesn't have working networking, so  
> how can you do remote single-user mode for upgrading your system?
> 
Using a serial console.


Cheers,
-- 
Ruslan Ermilov
ru at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer
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