From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 12 19:31:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.eol.ca (mail.echo-on.net [205.189.151.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12C9637B400 for ; Fri, 12 Apr 2002 19:31:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from eol.ca (ppp-RAS1-2-99.dialup.eol.ca [64.56.225.99]) by mail.eol.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6795F86E17 for ; Fri, 12 Apr 2002 22:31:02 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3CB7989A.F3BAF4F3@eol.ca> Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 22:31:54 -0400 From: angelaoyu@eol.ca X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: upgrade freebsd from 4.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 Dear all I visit to the website http://mostgraveconcern.com/freebsd/ and would like to upgrade freebsd Can I upgrade it remotely? But the website introduces to use single user. How do I do it? Thank you # cd /usr/obj # chflags -R noschg * # rm -rf * Compile the sources: # cd /usr/src # make buildworld Compile and install the new kernel: # cd /usr/src # make kernel KERNCONF=YOURKERNEL Drop to single user mode: # shutdown now # mount -u / # mount -a -t ufs # swapon -a Install the world: # cd /usr/src # make installworld Update /etc: # cp -Rp /etc /etc.old # /usr/sbin/mergemaster -v -w 132 (eliminate '-w 132' if 132x43 video mode is not activated) Update /dev: # cd /dev # /bin/sh MAKEDEV all Update /stand: # cd /usr/src/release/sysinstall # make clean # make all install Reboot to multi-user mode. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message