From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 6 20:31:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A513337B401 for ; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 20:31:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.ufl.edu (sp16en1.nerdc.ufl.edu [128.227.74.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBEBC43E6A for ; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 20:31:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stest030@garbonzo.hos.ufl.edu) Received: from bobj.dyndns.org (cpe-gan-68-101-90-216-cmcpe.ncf.coxexpress.com [68.101.90.216]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.ufl.edu (8.12.6/8.12.6/2.4.0) with ESMTP id g973VJsw041054 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO); Sun, 6 Oct 2002 23:31:21 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Bob Johnson To: "Denis Fortin" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading a remote system Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2002 23:31:03 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.4] References: <039301c26d66$89a10c40$0c7fa8c0@asus2000> In-Reply-To: <039301c26d66$89a10c40$0c7fa8c0@asus2000> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200210062331.03175.stest030@garbonzo.hos.ufl.edu> X-Scanned-By: NERDC Open Systems Group (http://open-systems.ufl.edu/services/virus-scan/) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday 06 October 2002 02:31 pm, Denis Fortin appears to have=20 written: > Greetings, > > The "makeworld" procedure to upgrade a FreeBSD system recommends > going to single user mode at some point. > > I need to upgrade a system that's in Canada (I am in France)... Is > there a recommended procedure for doing this? My only connection > into that machine is a telnet connection into the ISP. > The recommended procedure is to set up the system to use the serial=20 port as the local console, and have a second system that lets you=20 talk to that serial port via telnet or ssh or whatever. Of course, you=20 aren't likely to have that option at this point, so you are stuck with=20 doing what the rest of us do: most of the time you can get away with=20 doing the upgrade in multiuser mode if you kick all of the other users=20 off the system and kill unneeded processes so that you are working=20 with a quiet system. =20 The other option is to hire someone who knows FreeBSD to do it=20 for you. It isn't a bad idea to at least locate someone you can call=20 in to help, just in case you end up needing someone on site. > Any advice appreciated... > > Denis Fortin, fortin@acm.org Good luck, - Bob To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message