Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:07:35 +0000 From: "krad@snaffler.net" <krad@snaffler.net> To: Artem Kuchin <matrix@itlegion.ru> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Steps to upgrade from 7.0-RELEASE to 7.1-RELEASE Message-ID: <4981E257.7050005@snaffler.net> In-Reply-To: <4981C1DD.5090402@itlegion.ru> References: <94136a2c0901280332n7301fe50tc85408a9f20c6a22@mail.gmail.com> <49817974.3030307@snaffler.net> <49819ED0.5030003@comcast.net> <200901291437.42413.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> <4981C1DD.5090402@itlegion.ru>
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I have done that many times without hitch but would never recommend it on a production box even though i have never seen an issue in real world situations. Note the mergemaster -p should be done before the installword as it sometimes add new accounts and things that the installworld needs to complete. Artem Kuchin wrote: > > > Mike Clarke ?????: >> On Thursday 29 January 2009, Akenner wrote: >> >> >>> For some reason if you follow along line by line in the book "FreeBSD >>> Unleashed Second edition" which was written and came with 5.0 on CD, >>> it doesn't work at all for some reason. I think there must have been >>> a few changes in the way things are done between these versions but I >>> couldn't get those instructions to work at all. I'm sure it works >>> great on 5.0 but I kind of fell for 7.1 like a school kid lol. >>> >> >> >> > > I have never had a single problem updating system remotely via > internet like this: > > doing a sup file like this: > > *default host=cvsup4.FReeBSD.org > *default base=/usr > *default prefix=/usr > *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_7 > *default delete use-rel-suffix > *default compress > > src-all > doc-all tag=. > ports-all tag=. > > Then > > csup supfile > > Then > cd /usr/local/src > make buildworld >& bw > check the end of bw > make buildkernel KERNCONF=MYKERN >&bk > check what's in bk > > i redirect output to save the bandwidth and traffic > stop as many thing as i can stop > > make installkernel KERNCONF=MYKERN > make installworld >&iw > > check what's in iw > > mergemaster -p > mergemaster > > disable everything in /local/etc/rc.d and as many as possible in rc.conf > > shutdown -r now > > and then it's up and it's a new version! > > as i said - it never failed! > > -- > Artem > > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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