Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 00:52:44 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: That Doug Guy <tiller@connectnet.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Remote upgrade help please Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970211005154.923T-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <199702081821.KAA10094@smtp.connectnet.com>
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On Sat, 8 Feb 1997, That Doug Guy wrote: > I need to upgrade a 2.1.5 to system to 2.2 remotely, and need > some advice on ways to do that. It would be nice if I could use > /stand/sysinstall to do the upgrade off the ftp site....but I tried > several variations of that without success. After tinkering with my > home system, it seems that the way to accomplish this is to download the > /src tree tarballs, use a custom installation from sysinstall to extract > them, build a new kernel, reboot, then make world. Oh, ow. You can't just download the directories to the local machine and use UFS install? We did this for 2.1.5 last time and intend to do it for 2.2 on our main server. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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