From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 24 21:54: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 222E737B405 for ; Sat, 24 Nov 2001 21:54:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from owt.com (owt-207-41-94-232.owt.com [207.41.94.232]) by rutger.owt.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA12269; Sat, 24 Nov 2001 21:53:59 -0800 Message-ID: <3C008777.2040107@owt.com> Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 21:53:59 -0800 From: Kent Stewart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011019 Netscape6/6.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: BSD Freak Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Syncing my souce with 4.4-RELEASE not 4-STABLE References: <78e5c79772.7977278e5c@mbox.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG BSD Freak wrote: > Hi Guys, > > I manage several FreeBSD boxes remotely. They are in a difficult to > get to location. The currently run 4.3-RELEASE and I would like to > upgrade them to 4.4-RELEASE (not 4.4-STABLE). I beleive this can be > sone by syncing my source tree and doing a 'build world' . > > Thus far I have only seen instructions on syncing a source tree with > either -CURRENT or -STABLE not -RELEASE. Anyone got an url or manpage > that will give me instructions on updating my source to 4.4-RELEASE > and then 'build world' ..... It doesn't work this way. You have to also build your kernel and install it. The usual rules that you will find in /usr/src/UPDATING has you boot to single user mode to do the installworld. On remotes, this only works if you have a console on the serial port. I have access to the console on all of my systems. I have never used a serial console. After the installworld, you have to run mergemaster to update the configuration files that changed in places such as /etc. If you have a comparable machine locally, you could test the comment in UPDATING where is states that you can do an installworld with out being in single user mode. I ran that way with 4.0, .1 and .2 but at .3, I starting only doing single user installworlds. I was doing the upgrade over my local network. It always worked. Starting with 4.3, there were enough things going on following RELENG_4 that I didn't want to fight even on a machine that I had physical access to the console. Kent > > Thanks heaps..... -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message