Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 15:22:12 +0000 From: Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk> To: Daniel Lang <langd-freebsd-hackers@leo.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD "Live Upgrade" best practice? Message-ID: <6.0.1.1.1.20040311151611.04006b70@imap.sfu.ca> In-Reply-To: <20040311101933.GE20701@atrbg11.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> References: <20040311101933.GE20701@atrbg11.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
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At 10:19 11/03/2004, Daniel Lang wrote: >I'd like to try some sort of "Live Upgrade". > >Given: -STABLE box with an extra disk. > >[snip] > >Maybe someone has already done such a thing? My depenguinator is useful for this purpose; it creates a disk image, which you can write to your second drive, which boots into a memory disk; you can then slice, partition, create filesystems, and generally do whatever you like with the system -- without needing anything beyond a network connection. Colin Percival
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