From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 26 10:14:45 2004 Return-Path: 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 5AA1E16A4CE for ; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 10:14:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (ns0.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.2.69.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83D9343D41 for ; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 10:14:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (localhost.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:::1])i6QAEd0m062376 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 26 Jul 2004 11:14:39 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: (from matthew@localhost)id i6QAEdlt062375; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 11:14:39 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew) Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 11:14:39 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman To: Mathias Haas Message-ID: <20040726101438.GE61141@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Matthew Seaman , Mathias Haas , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4104D039.8070602@haas.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="u5E4XgoOPWr4PD9E" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4104D039.8070602@haas.se> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Greylist: Message not sent from an IPv4 address, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.5.3 (smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk [0.0.0.0]); Mon, 26 Jul 2004 11:14:39 +0100 (BST) X-Virus-Scanned: clamd / ClamAV version devel-20040705, clamav-milter version 0.74a on smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Urgent! Firewire support in 4.6.2? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 10:14:45 -0000 --u5E4XgoOPWr4PD9E Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 11:34:49AM +0200, Mathias Haas wrote: > Hello! My wifes' company had a break-in during the night today and they= =20 > stole ALL the computers. They have their backup on an external firewire= =20 > disk. > At home I have a FreeBSD 4.6.2 setup - but I believe that 4.6.2 doesn't= =20 > have firewire support, is this correct? > Is there any way to add firewire support to the kernel or do I have to=20 > upgrade to a later version of FreeBSD? > If so, what are the odds for a successfull upgrade from 4.6.2 to 4.10 ?= =20 > A fresh reinstall would take a lot of time since the 4.6.2 server runs a= =20 > ton of applications. Yikes. Yes, FireWire support was first introduced in FreeBSD 5.0 and then later MFC'd to 4.x: see http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=3Dfwohci&apropos=3D0&sektion= =3D0&manpath=3DFreeBSD+4.10-stable&format=3Dhtml A 4.6.2 to 4.10 upgrade should be do-able by the make {build,install}{world,kernel} process as spelt out in /usr/src/UPDATING. Just use cvsup(1) to grab the latest RELENG_4 or RELENG_4_10 sources and follow the instructions. There's plenty in the Handbook about doing an upgrade like that: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/synching.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html That should get you a kernel+base system update without screwing up all of the other software you've got installed. Although it is impossible to be completely certain about that. If the machine you intend to do this to is a production system, then I'd advise you not to, but instead to hunt around for a reasonably cheap new machine with FireWire capability and install there instead. In any case, get good backups of your 4.6.2 box before doing anything else to that machine. Cheers, Matthew --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK --u5E4XgoOPWr4PD9E Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBBNmOiD657aJF7eIRAkyFAJ4ntgKBZQrJEz2fxIPK03LOvyRZzgCeICo+ gIyeo2VyIULFBYCjCstMEzo= =01uy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --u5E4XgoOPWr4PD9E--