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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!sztaki.hu!news.sztaki.hu!goliat.eik.bme.hu!newsadmin From: pink@fsz.bme.hu (Szabolcs Szigeti (PinkPanther)) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: NetBSD-0.9 bootable in single user mode Date: 22 Apr 1994 12:30:30 GMT Organization: Department of Process Control, Technical University of Budapest, HUNGARY Lines: 25 Distribution: world Message-ID: <2p8g16$n1c@goliat.eik.bme.hu> References: <2ojpht$4pm@hq.hq.af.mil> Reply-To: pink@fsz.bme.hu NNTP-Posting-Host: bagira.fsz.bme.hu In article 4pm@hq.hq.af.mil, lpeters@scratchy.hq.af.mil (Leslie D. Peters) writes: >In article <FEN.94Apr13143158@imagine.comedia.com>, fen@imagine.comedia.com (Fen Labalme) writes: >|> (This is probably trivial, but...) >|> >|> When I reboot NetBSD, it simply comes up multiuser. >|> I want to move my /var to a new partition, and for >|> safety I want to do the move while in single-user mode. >What I use to do maintenance on my NetBSD 0.9a boxes is boot off >of the kernel floppy, then move to the first filesystem disk. >When asked if I wish to process with installation, I enter "N". >This deposits me into an operational single-user mode with no >mounted filesystems (yet). > How about giving the -s switch at the boot prompt? --- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= |You are not expected to understand this | Szabolcs Szigeti | | -- Ken Thompson in swtch() -- | Internet: pink@fsz.bme.hu | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=