From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 8 20:47:42 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC88637B401 for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 20:47:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tolkor.sgi.com (tolkor.SGI.COM [198.149.18.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D94543F93 for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 20:47:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from schultz@sgi.com) Received: from ledzep.americas.sgi.com (ledzep.americas.sgi.com [192.48.203.134])ESMTP id h3940GVe004575 for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 23:00:16 -0500 Received: from metallica.americas.sgi.com (metallica.americas.sgi.com [137.38.68.46]) by ledzep.americas.sgi.com (8.12.9/americas-smart-nospam1.1) with ESMTP id h393lea219503838 for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 22:47:41 -0500 (CDT) Received: from cf-vpn-hw-schultz-3.americas.sgi.com (cf-vpn-hw-schultz-3.corp.sgi.com [134.15.85.188])h393lerS5520503 for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 22:47:41 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 22:47:40 -0500 (CDT) From: Randy Schultz X-X-Sender: schultz@cf-vpn-hw-schultz-3.americas.sgi.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: remote upgrades X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2003 03:47:43 -0000 Hey all, What's the preferred method (or what are the methods, in case I missed any) to remote upgrade a system? I've been looking into the 3 methods and it seems doing it from source is about the only way no? The binary upgrade would be good except ones needs to boot the new version from floppy. Just for grins I tried the "sysinstall installUpgrade" on a testbed. Seemed to work but /kernel was missing. Oops. -- Randy (schultz@sgi.com) 715-726-2832 <*> The Penguin Cometh