From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 17 11:01:53 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id LAA11214 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 17 Apr 1995 11:01:53 -0700 Received: from aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw ([140.109.40.248]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA11200 for ; Mon, 17 Apr 1995 11:01:43 -0700 Received: (from taob@localhost) by aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw (8.6.11/8.6.9) id CAA05361; Tue, 18 Apr 1995 02:01:47 +0800 Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1995 02:01:45 +0800 (CST) From: Brian Tao To: FREEBSD-HACKERS-L Subject: Re: installing a new snap In-Reply-To: <5528.798098372@freefall.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 16 Apr 1995, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > There is no good way.. :-( You're generally expected to install each > snapshot completely from scratch. That is how we do them here.. Hrmmm... this is how I've been doing it for the past three snapshots. 1. Bring the machine down into single user 2. Make a backup of /etc. 3. Mount the local mirror or FTP the bin.* files to /tmp. 4. chflag /kernel and appropriate files in /usr/lib. 5. cat /tmp/bin.* | tar -zxvvp --unlink -f - 6. Compile and install a new kernel 7. Check out /etc, merge old /etc. 8. Reboot. -- Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org