Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 14:22:02 -0700 From: "Patrick Soltani" <psoltani@ultradns.com> To: "Shawn Walker" <shawn@eblend.org> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Remote Upgrade Message-ID: <3DBB075EEB95944492E127F2B9A96FAF539525@ultra-exchange.UltraDNS.com>
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I have upgraded my production firewalls, FreeBSD 4.x, over the network with little or no problems. Here is the recipe, couple of cvsup for src tree couple of cvsup for ports tree make -j 16 buildworld > somefile0 make buildkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL0 > somefile1 make installkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL0 > somefile2 make installworld > somefile3 reboot the machine mergemaster. The last part is kind of tricky, but executed without any options, you get a chance to read the changes and apply the ones you want. If the machine is a 7X24 production box and you can not have it downed, then put the lines above into a script, hopefully with some error checking, etc and do a "nice or renice" so it runs in the background and when finished emails you. Regards, Patrick Soltani. P.S. Although I have had no problems doing this, I had a console switch with an attached modem hooked up to the serial port so if anything went wrong, still I could get to the machine to revive it. > -----Original Message----- > From: Shawn Walker [mailto:shawn@eblend.org] > Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 8:54 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Remote Upgrade > > > Hello, > > I currently have a box running 4.1-RELEASE. It is not > possible for me > to gain physical access to the box, so I was wondering if it > is possible to > upgrade the box remotely. I have looked at the instructions > in the handbook > and in /usr/src/UPDATING, but there is some mention of a few > steps that > should be completed in single user mode. Is it possible to do this > remotely? > > Thanks, > > -- > Shawn Walker > shawn@eblend.org <-----> http://www.eblend.org/ > > "In rural areas, we're not going to have full coverage until > cows talk." > -- Dan Dan Wilinsky, Sprint PCS > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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