Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 18:46:11 +0300 From: "Pavel Alexey" <palexey@victoriabank.md> To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Upgrade lots of machines Message-ID: <C225691C.0056A1C8.00@lotus.pvt>
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Hi! I have few machines with RELEASE-4 and want to upgrade it to STABLE-4. Advisable method with mount /usr/src and /usr/obj from upgraded "master" I can't use. I can't do "buildworld" on it (see my previous letter) and I "make world", thus I'm not sure "installworld" will work. Moreover I must upgrade computers in DMZ (no NFS) and fast (can't disassemble and mount disk from "master"). I do next steps: 1. "make world" in sigle mode on one (scratch) computer. 2. make new /etc and /dev and "found" changes. 3. "make -DNOCLEAN -DETDIR=/MYTMP world" 4. copy new /modules to /MYTMP 5. tar and gzip all in MYTMP into newsys.tgz (about 40 mb) 6. "make buildkernel KERNEL=MYKERNEL" 7. Save newsys.tgz and new kernel. now I try 8. reinstall on this scratch computer RELEASE-4 9. copy sh tar gzip to /tmp 10. go in single-user mode. 11. cd /; exec /tmp/sh; /tmp/tar xvfz /tmp/newsys.tgz . All pass almost without error (tar can't create some simbolic links, because it already exist:-). Only /sbin/init was not overrided (in use). 12. install new kernel into / 13:-). reboot All seems to be fine. BUT: I do all this for a scratch computer and /sbin/init was not overrided. Can somebody tell me, what can occur wrong, if I try to do this for my "real" servers? With best wishes, Pavel Alexey To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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