From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 26 19:18:22 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E847106566C for ; Mon, 26 Mar 2012 19:18:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsam@passap.ru) Received: from forward12.mail.yandex.net (forward12.mail.yandex.net [IPv6:2a02:6b8:0:801::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F000F8FC15 for ; Mon, 26 Mar 2012 19:18:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp11.mail.yandex.net (smtp11.mail.yandex.net [95.108.130.67]) by forward12.mail.yandex.net (Yandex) with ESMTP id 9984EC220B8; Mon, 26 Mar 2012 23:18:20 +0400 (MSK) Received: from smtp11.mail.yandex.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp11.mail.yandex.net (Yandex) with ESMTP id 7A2277E033F; Mon, 26 Mar 2012 23:18:20 +0400 (MSK) Received: from 46.38.39.187.tel.ru (46.38.39.187.tel.ru [46.38.39.187]) by smtp11.mail.yandex.net (nwsmtp/Yandex) with ESMTP id IJwG4mxj-IKw4Nn3d; Mon, 26 Mar 2012 23:18:20 +0400 Message-ID: <4F70C0FB.1060208@passap.ru> Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 23:18:19 +0400 From: Boris Samorodov User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD i386; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111114 Thunderbird/8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Martin McCormick References: <201203261820.q2QIKaFt008532@dc.cis.okstate.edu> In-Reply-To: <201203261820.q2QIKaFt008532@dc.cis.okstate.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Remote System Builds X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 19:18:22 -0000 26.03.2012 22:20, Martin McCormick пишет: > Is there yet any way to remotely rebuild a FreeBSD > system? I have two FreeBSD systems on two remote campuses that > presently run FreeBSD6.3. They need to be running FreeBSD9.0 and > I don't really care how I get there as long as it can be done > over the network. If we were physically there, I would put a > CDROM in and blow them away since it is such a large jump. I used an USB stick with full system, sources (/usr/src) and compiled binary (/usr/obj). Since the system is booted from USB, I have full control via ssh session. > I can have staff members there install CDROM's that were > remastered to use the serial console, but I am hoping that maybe > we are moving past this sort of logistics. > > I just tried to unpack the 9.0 image using tar which has > worked in the past to let one modify loader.conf but I got a > bunch of errors this time about files that couldn't be created > so maybe this is not the recommended headless installation > technique any longer. > > Any ideas? HTH -- WBR, Boris Samorodov (bsam) FreeBSD Committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve