Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 03:14:49 -0600 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net> To: Jim Durham <durham@jcdurham.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3.3 to 4.5 remote upgrade possible? Message-ID: <20020305031449.G3880@over-yonder.net> In-Reply-To: <200203050403.g2543sk18761@w2xo.pgh.pa.us>; from durham@jcdurham.com on Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 11:03:47PM -0500 References: <200203050403.g2543sk18761@w2xo.pgh.pa.us>
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On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 11:03:47PM -0500 I heard the voice of Jim Durham, and lo! it spake thus: > > Is this "Mission Impossible"? I have no one at the site that can do this. > > If I say "make installworld" is the whole thing going to come to a > grinding halt? When I did a 2.2.8-STABLE to 4.3-STABLE upgrade, I ended having to do it in one broken-up step. First (and the only sane way, IMO) is to do the buildworld on a 4.x system; get all those lib conflicts and crap out of the picture. Then I installed the 4.x kernel, did the necessary frobbing (installing loader, re-disklabel -B'ing, sd->da renames in /var with mknod, etc), booted up the 4.x kernel, THEN did the installworld, mergemaster, reboot. Some issues I found: - Some apps (portmap in particular) caused no end of trouble when the 2.2 app ran under the 4 kernel. Like, kernel-panic type trouble. - Device renamings are a bitch. In theory, a 3->4 upgrade should be easier than this, since you don't I think need to do any device renaming, which solves a bunch of my problems right off. I'd still be pretty leery about doing it remotely, though. -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net Unix Systems Administrator | fullermd@futuresouth.com Specializing in FreeBSD | http://www.over-yonder.net/ "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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