Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 21:49:10 +0100 From: Palle Girgensohn <girgen@pingpong.net> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to remote update 4.10 -> 5.3? Message-ID: <FA148342E1CB891D674B768C@palle.girgensohn.se> In-Reply-To: <20041229203601.GD10293@odin.ac.hmc.edu> References: <05F0F09DEB66858D9B452FB8@palle.girgensohn.se> <20041229203601.GD10293@odin.ac.hmc.edu>
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--On onsdag, december 29, 2004 12.36.01 -0800 Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 09:30:37PM +0100, Palle Girgensohn wrote: >> Has anyone managed to update a 4.10 system to 5.3 remotely, i.e. without >> console access, and without spare disk partitions? >> >> I have a bunch of 4.10 machines that are too far away for me to actually >> do the update hands on. I've tried it on a test machine, it fails half >> way through installworld, and really needs single user mode to succeed. >> The install procedure fails since it starts using the newly installed >> stuff, things like sh(1) and test(1), and they cannot find their >> libc.so.5, I guess... >> >> One idea I have is copying / and /usr to some other place and set >> ldconfig and PATH=some/other/place and when building and installing. >> Haven't tried it yet, thought I'd hear anyone on this list has a better >> suggestion? >> >> Optimally, there would a couple of gigs on a separate spare disk >> partition so I could just install everything there and use it upon >> reboot. Problem is, there is no such space. :( > > In general, my suggestion would be, don't do that. Do you really need > to upgrade? Remember, 4.11 is likely to be supported for security > upgrades into early 2006 so if your machines are working and you don't > really need the new functionality, I'd suggest avoiding an upgrade. Well, I need wide char support, as in iswlower and the likes. Maybe I could use some portability lib or similar...? Ideas? BTW, do you mean that 5.3 is not stable enough, or just that it is a nuisance to upgrade? While I agree that 4.10 is very stable, a lot of things have improved with 5.x... /Palle
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