Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 00:11:23 -0600 From: Gerd Knops <gerti@bitart.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Remote upgrade suggestions? Message-ID: <20001101061123.10136.qmail@camelot.bitart.com>
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Hello everybody, I have about 50 machines (spread over 4 continents) running FreeBSD in various versions from 3.2 to 3.5. For various reasons I would like to upgrade them to 4.2. The problems: - remote upgrade from 3.x to 4.x is a tricky procedure - not all of the systems may have enough diskspace for a full system build - bandwidth to some of the systems is quite limited (64 kbsec with a little packet loss) On the plus side, all systems have a second disk (identical to the first) that I could use to move a new system to, then have someone just swap the disks. So I am thinking of bulding a minimal system, the sending it as a compressed tarball, have an install script put a system from it onto the second disk (and I think it needs to write boot blocks?). Anyone done something like this and care to share experiences? Or anyone have a better idea? Thanks for reading Gerd To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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