Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 15:40:03 +0200 From: "Hr. Daniel Mikkelsen" <daniel@copyleft.no> To: Mikhail Vladimirov <vladimirow@mail.ru> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Run existing FreeBSD installation inside jail Message-ID: <44C0D933.7070606@copyleft.no> In-Reply-To: <1993258071.20060721173443@mail.ru> References: <1993258071.20060721173443@mail.ru>
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Mikhail Vladimirov wrote: > I want to try the following trick: > > 1. Install FreeBSD 6.x-STABLE on the separate HDD, while it is inside > my home PC. > 2. Place this HDD into server, make it bootable. > 3. Boot new system, and mount old HDD (with FreeBSD 4.x and all old > stuff) > 4. Setup jail inside new system, which will run old system. > 5. Now I have all services running, and I can transfer it to new > system one by one quietly. > > I believe, that FreeBSD is backward compatible, and all my stuff, > which successfully run on 4.x sill run inside jail on 6.x. I am > right? Did anybody tried to do something like this? What was the > results? Hi. It might work well enough for your services to run, depending on what they are. I'd insert two new steps in between 3 and 4: 3b: Tar down a copy of the old system. 3c: Upgrade the old system in place (mergemaster, installworld, etc.) to the same version your new system is running. This is usually straight forward. -- Daniel Mikkelsen Copyleft Software AS
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