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From: "Jorn Argelo" <jorn@wcborstel.nl>
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Subject: Re: How to upgrade from 5.2.1 to 5.3 with only remote access
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On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 11:33:43 +0000, Chris Hastie wrote
> Hi
> 
> I'm sure there must be documentation on this, but I just can't find 
> it. Plenty of stuff on upgrading from 4.x to 5.3, but nothing on 
> upgrading from 5.2.1
> 
> The situation is that I have a remote, leased server running 5.2.1. 
> I have ssh access only, no console access or terminal server, so 
> anything involving single user mode is not an option. I believe the 
> original installation was a binary installation, though I have since 
> installed some of the source (using sysinstall) so that I could 
> customise the kernel.

I never did an make installworld in single user mode, and it always went fine. 
It's probably not the right thing to do, though.  You could ask the personnel 
there to do the steps required in single user mode. They can probably hook up 
a monitor on it.

Cheers,

Jorn.