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From: hannes@flinx.RoBIN.de (Hannes Deeken)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: NetBSD-0.9 bootable in single user mode?
Date: 15 Apr 1994 08:18:34 +0200
Organization: Nosimals & Co.
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Message-ID: <2olbk8INNiou@flinx.RoBIN.de>
References: <FEN.94Apr13143158@imagine.comedia.com> <2ojpht$4pm@hq.hq.af.mil>
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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.
>|>
>|> Is there some way to do this?
>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).
Why don't you just type '-s' at the boot prompt?
Hannes
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