Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 00:02:13 -0500 (CDT) From: "=?iso-8859-1?q?Jorge=20Mario=20G.?=" <murcielako@yahoo.com> To: Duncan Anker <d.anker@au.darkbluesea.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading from 3.4 to 4.6 Message-ID: <20020909050213.74359.qmail@web13802.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <3D7C2919.5040701@au.darkbluesea.com>
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--- Duncan Anker <d.anker@au.darkbluesea.com> escribió: > Hi all, > > I have some machines that need to be upgraded from > FreeBSD 3.4 - I'm > pretty sure I could follow the upgrade path 3.4 -> > 3.5 STABLE -> > 4.1.1-RELEASE -> 4.6, but I do have much better > things to do with my time. > > What I want to know is, if I build a 4.6 kernel and > world on another > machine, can I NFS mount these and install the world > and kernel with > minimum fuss. I know there are a few things like > devices changing and so > on, but I'm hoping mergemaster can take care of > things like that. > > I don't have access to the console, so I have to > perform the upgrades > remotely - any solution involving being at the > console to boot from > floppies/CD is not an option. > > TIA > Duncan Anker Hi duncan well I did that for an upgrade 4.1 -> 4.6 just download the sources and compile in a box the NFS "export" the /usr/src and /usr/obj dirs mount it from the outdated box and "make installworld" and don't forget the kernel the the bitch of mergemaster will do the dirty work ===== _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Información de Estados Unidos y América Latina, en Yahoo! Noticias. Visítanos en http://noticias.espanol.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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