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From: "=?iso-8859-1?q?Jorge=20Mario=20G.?=" <murcielako@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Upgrading from 3.4 to 4.6
To: Duncan Anker <d.anker@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mount it from the outdated box and "make installworld"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


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