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From: bbs.barfeau@tsoft.sf-bay.org (David Fox)
Subject: re: compiling from scratch takes along time
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Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1992 21:05:05 GMT
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antkasx.719616816@gsusgi1.gsu.edu writes:

>I had the same problem but have seemed to have solved it by 
"shutdown"ing
>into single user mode before running the make.

How do you do this?  I read man shutdown and didn't see an explicit 
setting
for going into single-user mode.

Also, I typically run my system in "single-user" mode (that is, I'm the 
only
person on it) :) and there isn't a whole lot going on anyway .. just the
stock things that get loaded during the boot process (in /etc/rc).  I'm
not so sure the absense of these programs in memory will help things that
much, but if it will make a difference, I'm willing to try it.  

--
David Fox (bbs.barfeau@tsoft.sf-bay.org)