From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 9 22:15:20 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E6CD16A4D0 for ; Tue, 9 Jan 2007 22:15:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AAC513C45B for ; Tue, 9 Jan 2007 22:15:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1H4PFJ-0001Cr-1Z for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 09 Jan 2007 23:15:05 +0100 Received: from 89-172-49-221.adsl.net.t-com.hr ([89.172.49.221]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 09 Jan 2007 23:15:05 +0100 Received: from ivoras by 89-172-49-221.adsl.net.t-com.hr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 09 Jan 2007 23:15:05 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Ivan Voras Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 23:14:40 +0100 Lines: 50 Message-ID: References: <45a4003a.a9.79e0.1327045836@cytanet.com.cy> <45A40C9A.10700@chapman.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig0E27FCD0473DBCCEDA207D8D" X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 89-172-49-221.adsl.net.t-com.hr User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) In-Reply-To: <45A40C9A.10700@chapman.edu> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.1.2 Sender: news Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.2 Release X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 22:15:20 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig0E27FCD0473DBCCEDA207D8D Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Jay Chandler wrote: > On a semi-related note, are there installation instructions for > upgrading from 6.1 to 6.2? Upgrading between minor version of FreeBSD is always the same - run cvsup, recompile, install - it's also the same between 6.1 and 6.2. (see http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html and http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html =2E.. chapter "The Canonical Way to Update Your System") > On that vein, are there instructions for the same upgrade if you don't > have console access-- namely, no single-user mode? With some care, it can be done the same way and without problems in multiuser mode. While it's NOT recommended, I've frequently done updates from multiuser (sometimes even in hot production) without any issues. There's really little that can go wrong, and if you follow procedure and there are no unusual events, nothing that can't be fixed relatively easil= y. Note that things are different when upgrading from one major version to another (e.g. 6.x to 7.x), though I even managed to update 5.x to 6.x while the machine was "live" the whole time with only minor glitches, solved by recompiling ports. I doubt this would work with 6.x->7.x because of the many changes. --------------enig0E27FCD0473DBCCEDA207D8D Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFpBPWldnAQVacBcgRAjHLAJ9FR7vbq06whXKrmFAgb+xD8iKu4QCg6iht mmMNJmj9u95isDnXfZpBHHg= =Kwed -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig0E27FCD0473DBCCEDA207D8D--