Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 22:11:07 +0800 From: sam <sam.wun@tech-21.com.hk> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to update my system Message-ID: <429DC1FB.5000606@tech-21.com.hk> In-Reply-To: <EA2AC2AE-852D-47E1-9A9D-C91686FF59D3@netgate.com> References: <43866.62.2.21.164.1117631913.squirrel@www.gwch.net> <429DB9B2.70405@t-hosting.hu> <EA2AC2AE-852D-47E1-9A9D-C91686FF59D3@netgate.com>
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Jim Thompson wrote: > > > On Jun 1, 2005, at 3:35 AM, Kövesdán Gábor wrote: > >> >> Reboot into single user mode, remount root with mount -u, then: >> >> cd /usr/src >> make installworld > > > I keep seeing this, and its all fine and dandy, I even understand > some of the reasons why its a good idea. > > But friends, I, and probably a million other people, run FreeBSD in > colo space, and in my case, its a 3000 mile > trip (across the ocean, so I can't even drive) to go visit the poor > machines. > > So, what about a short discussion on the risks of ignoring the > request to go to single-user? > > and yeah, I know about serial consoles. > I guess you are talking about binary update. This had been discuessed million times in the newsgroup. I feel that if you have a handy tool of binary update thru the www, that will be able to bring you a happy profit. There was an open-source server code called binary update, it keeps in private sector now. That company is using it offers service to freebsd community. If you want to join them you can pay them a fair amount of dollars then you can have your freebsd system binary update regularly thru their server. Sam > OK. >
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