From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 30 06:50:09 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E1D810656D1 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 06:50:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter@boosten.org) Received: from smtpq2.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net (smtpq2.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net [212.54.42.165]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 294C28FC0C for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 06:50:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter@boosten.org) Received: from [212.54.42.140] (helo=smtp9.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net) by smtpq2.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LSnCZ-0002at-N6; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 07:50:07 +0100 Received: from [84.25.72.219] (helo=ra.egypt.nl) by smtp9.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LSnCY-0008Oo-WE; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 07:50:07 +0100 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (xp.egypt.nl [192.168.13.35]) by ra.egypt.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28E12398E0; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 07:50:05 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4982A31C.8000103@boosten.org> Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 07:50:04 +0100 From: Peter Boosten User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Windows/20081209) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: robert@webtent.com References: <1233291152.26964.15.camel@columbus.webtent.org> In-Reply-To: <1233291152.26964.15.camel@columbus.webtent.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-ID: 1LSnCY-0008Oo-WE X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-1.413, required 5, BAYES_00 -2.60, CM_META_TB_NOARR 0.50, SPF_NEUTRAL 0.69) X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-From: peter@boosten.org X-Spam-Status: No Cc: FreeBSD Subject: Re: Upgrade 6.1 to 7.1 remotely? 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: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 06:50:09 -0000 Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: > I have a remote system with no access to boot info. I can get someone to > reset, look at screen, etc. The server is 6.1-RELEASE-p15 and wondering > if there is a path to upgrade to 7.1 remotely. Would it be possible to > do something like this for getting the box to 6.4... > > http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2006-11-26-freebsd-6.1-to-6.2-binary-upgrade.html > > And then another freebsd-update to 7.1? Seems that box will not let me > portupgrade clamav anymore due to a change from 6.1 :( > I've upgraded several machines remotely with success (as described in the handbook) and never had any problems (even did a OpenBSD version upgrade from 3.1 to 4.1 - somewhere around 3.4 they switched from a.out to elf format). Those upgrades where both minor (eg. 6.3 -> 6.4) and major (6.4 -> 7.0). Peter -- http://www.boosten.org