On 3/2/11 5:15 PM, Ed Flecko wrote: > Thanks Damien. > > :-) > > Two questions - > > 1.) If rebooting into single user mode isn't obviously a > requirement...I wonder why so many tutorials, books, etc. tell you to > do this? >
Rebooting single user ensures that most daemons aren't launched, as well as stuff related to networking and so on. It's safer but not mandatory per se. I've done 7.4-PRE to 8.0-REL upgrades just fine without the single user step, AND the machine came back alive ;) > 2.) How do I rebuild the ports? > Either you rebuild them by hand, one after another... Or you install a port that will do this for you, like /usr/ports/ports-mgt/portmanager/ portmanager -u -l et voila _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
