From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 8 12:48:28 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51DA516A404 for ; Mon, 8 May 2006 12:48:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from danger@rulez.sk) Received: from mail.rulez.sk (DaEmoN.RuLeZ.sK [84.16.32.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD10D43D46 for ; Mon, 8 May 2006 12:48:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from danger@rulez.sk) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.rulez.sk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87EE11CC78; Mon, 8 May 2006 14:48:26 +0200 (CEST) Received: from DANGER (unknown [217.73.23.230]) by mail.rulez.sk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 177F61CC68; Mon, 8 May 2006 14:48:21 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 14:48:13 +0200 From: Daniel Gerzo X-Mailer: The Bat! (v3.62.14) Professional X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <1153080475.20060508144813@rulez.sk> To: Scott Harrison In-Reply-To: <372C34B7-18BC-4061-99ED-8321E8109CF7@mithrandir.com> References: <372C34B7-18BC-4061-99ED-8321E8109CF7@mithrandir.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at mail.rulez.sk X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.569 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[AWL=0.030, BAYES_00=-2.599] X-Spam-Score: -2.569 X-Spam-Level: Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best practices for remote upgrade? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Daniel Gerzo List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 08 May 2006 12:48:28 -0000 Hi Scott, Monday, May 8, 2006, 2:29:23 PM, you contributed this to our collective wisdom: > Hello, > I have some 4.x servers that I would like to upgrade to 5.x, and > perhaps 6.x. However, I do not have any local access to these > machines. I can ssh into them only. I would like to know whether it > is possible for me to upgrade the machines with only ssh access, and > what one should do to go about upgrading them. Yeah, it's possible (and risky), however you will not get, for example, an advantages of UFS2 and so forth, because you can't upgrade from UFS to UFS2 without rebuilding FS. The problem is that it's not possible to upgrade directly to 6.0/1. You will have to go through process of upgrading to 5.3 first. But I would recommend you to make a backups of your configuration and ask someone who has a physical access to your servers to reinstall them for you. -- Sincerely, Daniel Gerzo