From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Oct 27 13:33:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA28160 for stable-outgoing; Mon, 27 Oct 1997 13:33:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable) Received: from cerebus.asmrb.org (dynamic-addr-116.consensus.com [157.22.240.116]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA28155 for ; Mon, 27 Oct 1997 13:33:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gmfangs@asmrb.org) Received: from dynamic-addr-115.consensus.com (dynamic-addr-115.consensus.com [157.22.240.115]) by cerebus.asmrb.org (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA22238; Mon, 27 Oct 1997 13:30:21 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <199710272000.PAA14290@eyelab.psy.msu.edu> References: <199710262251.RAA00684@bubble.didi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 14:16:42 -0700 To: Gary Schrock , asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) From: Christopher Allen Subject: Re: upgrading from 2.1-stable to 2.2-stable remotely? Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 12:03 PM -0700 10/27/97, Gary Schrock wrote: >At 05:51 PM 10/26/97 -0500, you wrote: >>You can do almost anything (including fsck) remotely if you use a >>serial console. Get a terminal server or use a null modem cable to >>connect it to a nearby machine. > >Hmm, now that's one of the more interesting solutions I've seen suggested. >Unfortunately I'm not sure if I could convince the place to let us on >another machine to do that with. Definitely will have to look into that. I had thought of that (as I have the remote server problem as well), but after my recent experience in upgrading I have decided not to. I didn't have any problems updating my system from 2.2.2-CD-ROM to 2.2-stable while in multi-user using the net. I should have disabled user login except to my one session (very easy to do) but as I had control over the user base I just told them not to log on for a day. Now there may be factors that are on other systems such as various oddball network services that should be off, and of course if you can do single-user it is safest, but being single-user isn't an absolute requirement. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- .. Christopher Allen 1563 Solano Ave., #353 .. .. ;-> Berkeley, CA 94707-2116 .. .. h510/528-9899 .. .. f510/649-3301 o510/649-3300 ..