From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 11 07:23:05 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF81616A4D2 for ; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 07:23:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from tx1.oucs.ox.ac.uk (tx1.oucs.ox.ac.uk [129.67.1.167]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FAFF43D3F for ; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 07:23:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk) Received: from scan1.oucs.ox.ac.uk ([129.67.1.166] helo=localhost) by tx1.oucs.ox.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1B1S1Y-0001vE-GT for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 15:23:04 +0000 Received: from rx1.oucs.ox.ac.uk ([129.67.1.165]) by localhost (scan1.oucs.ox.ac.uk [129.67.1.166]) (amavisd-new, port 25) with ESMTP id 07061-10 for ; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 15:23:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: from gateway.wadham.ox.ac.uk ([163.1.161.253]) by rx1.oucs.ox.ac.uk with smtp (Exim 4.24) id 1B1S1X-0001v9-6G for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 15:23:03 +0000 Received: (qmail 21189 invoked by uid 1004); 11 Mar 2004 15:23:03 -0000 Received: from colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk by gateway by uid 71 with qmail-scanner-1.20 (clamscan: 0.67. sweep: 2.18/3.79. Clear:RC:1(163.1.161.131):. Processed in 0.055174 secs); 11 Mar 2004 15:23:03 -0000 Received: from dhcp1131.wadham.ox.ac.uk (HELO piii600.wadham.ox.ac.uk) (163.1.161.131) by gateway.wadham.ox.ac.uk with SMTP; 11 Mar 2004 15:23:03 -0000 Message-Id: <6.0.1.1.1.20040311151611.04006b70@imap.sfu.ca> X-Sender: cperciva@imap.sfu.ca (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.1.1 Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 15:22:12 +0000 To: Daniel Lang From: Colin Percival In-Reply-To: <20040311101933.GE20701@atrbg11.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> References: <20040311101933.GE20701@atrbg11.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD "Live Upgrade" best practice? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 15:23:05 -0000 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