From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 13 17:50:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from stumpy.dannyland.org (stumpy.dannyland.org [209.157.133.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38E2E14EA1 for ; Fri, 13 Aug 1999 17:50:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dannyman@stumpy.dannyland.org) Received: by stumpy.dannyland.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id EED5C3CAD; Fri, 13 Aug 1999 17:51:10 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 17:51:10 -0700 From: dannyman To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Sheldon Hearn , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Using legacy sysinstall to upgrade live system Message-ID: <19990813175110.C38502@stumpy.dannyland.org> References: <24427.934315501@axl.noc.iafrica.com> <19699.934355261@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95i In-Reply-To: <19699.934355261@localhost>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Wed, Aug 11, 1999 at 12:07:41AM -0700 X-Loop: djhoward@uiuc.edu X-URL: http://www.dannyland.org/~dannyman/ Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Aug 11, 1999 at 12:07:41AM -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > The use of /stand/sysinstall to do a live upgrade has always been > discouraged, though it's not outright disallowed since I believe in > every man's right to blow his feet off if he really wants to. > > Nonetheless, for the expected installation experience one is > encouraged to boot the desired OS release's installation media and > select an upgrade instead of a new install. Uhmmm, what if we don't have a floppy drive? I suggested my colleague score /stand/sysinstall off one of my 3.2 systems so he could upgrade his 3.1. Has there been though put in to making a net-able upgrade set, maybe you have a sysinstall which pops the new kernel in to place, reboots into sysinstall like a floppy, and then gets ready to upgrade. Maybe we could use an MFS floppy? Might be a fun project to take on ... can one reboot into an MFS partition, or how hard would it be to try a "reboot system into upgrade floppy" without trashing the underlying system, in case the user wanted to bail ... maybe a kernel that chroot's itself into an /upgrade directory? Thoughts? -dman -- dannyman - http://www.dannyland.org/~dannyman/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message