Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2004 23:41:15 +0200 From: Roman Kennke <roman@ontographics.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Upgrading FreeBSD to a new release Message-ID: <1086558075.1256.33.camel@moonlight.localdomain>
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--=-YQxBlU8YO3tZbKKVSKE8 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi list, One thing, that is making me _not_ using FreeBSD is, that I see no way to easily upgrade from, say 5.1 to 5.2 (just an example), over network. I mean, I have a server running, to which I have no physical access. The only way to maintain it, is over SSH. The upgrade instructions in INSTALL.txt suggest putting in the CD, and using sysinstall for a binary upgrade. That is no option for me. What I am looking for is an upgrade method which - can be used over an SSH connection - is not too difficult (like manually placing each piece in the right place) - does not leave old stuff on the HD (like the sysinstall method does, AFAIK) ... to make it short, something like the ports system (especially portupgrade) does with non-system apps would be cool. Is there a way to achieve that? This would be the one bit, which would make me switch to FreeBSD. /Roman --=-YQxBlU8YO3tZbKKVSKE8 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachrichtenteil -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBAw497bTKKqwP/8kARAoAUAJ9jY8p405CytkPP4IqrgF7gVoYItwCfR+J5 QTchw27b94HZSHtV6t+fhYo= =myVq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-YQxBlU8YO3tZbKKVSKE8--
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