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Subject: Re: Upgrading FreeBSD to a new release
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On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 11:41:15PM +0200, Roman Kennke wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> One thing, that is making me _not_ using FreeBSD is, that I see no way
> to easily upgrade from, say 5.1 to 5.2 (just an example), over network.

This may or may not be an option for you:  both IBM and HP (Compaq) offer
remote supervisor cards that offer network access to the machine, even
when it is booting, etc. You can use it to access the BIOS, watch the
machine boot, get into single user mode, etc, all from your chair
in another city.