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Subject: Re: Finish upgrading remote server without physically being there?
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On 3/2/11 6:56 PM, Patrick Gibson wrote:
> If you're using a fairly recent version of FreeBSD, why not just use
> the built-in freebsd-update?
> 
> freebsd-update upgrade -r 8.2-RELEASE
> freebsd-update install
> reboot
> freebsd-update install
> 
> Patrick
> 

freebsd-update works only with GENERIC kernels, so if you're using say
for example carp interfaces for redundancy, you're stuffed ;)