From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 8 21:54:25 2002 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 C03B437B400 for ; Sun, 8 Sep 2002 21:54:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.au.darkbluesea.com (mail.au.darkbluesea.com [203.185.208.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65DF243E4A for ; Sun, 8 Sep 2002 21:54:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from d.anker@au.darkbluesea.com) Received: (qmail 38494 invoked by uid 82); 9 Sep 2002 04:53:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO au.darkbluesea.com) (10.0.0.188) by mail.au.darkbluesea.com with SMTP; 9 Sep 2002 04:53:46 -0000 Message-ID: <3D7C2919.5040701@au.darkbluesea.com> Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2002 14:52:41 +1000 From: Duncan Anker User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020529 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions Subject: Upgrading from 3.4 to 4.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi all, I have some machines that need to be upgraded from FreeBSD 3.4 - I'm pretty sure I could follow the upgrade path 3.4 -> 3.5 STABLE -> 4.1.1-RELEASE -> 4.6, but I do have much better things to do with my time. What I want to know is, if I build a 4.6 kernel and world on another machine, can I NFS mount these and install the world and kernel with minimum fuss. I know there are a few things like devices changing and so on, but I'm hoping mergemaster can take care of things like that. I don't have access to the console, so I have to perform the upgrades remotely - any solution involving being at the console to boot from floppies/CD is not an option. TIA Duncan Anker To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message