From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 31 22:11:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from camelot.bitart.com (BITart-45.BITart.com [206.103.221.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7AD5837B4C5 for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 22:11:24 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 10137 invoked by uid 101); 1 Nov 2000 06:11:23 -0000 Message-ID: <20001101061123.10136.qmail@camelot.bitart.com> Content-Type: text/plain MIME-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 4.2mach v148) X-Nextstep-Mailer: Mail 4.2mach (Enhance 2.2p1) Received: by NeXT.Mailer (1.148) From: Gerd Knops Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 00:11:23 -0600 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Remote upgrade suggestions? Reply-To: gerti-freebsdq@BITart.com Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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