Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 15:16:04 +0200 From: Mathias Haas <mathias_nospam@haas.se> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Urgent! Firewire support in 4.6.2? Message-ID: <41050414.7070902@haas.se> In-Reply-To: <20040726101438.GE61141@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <4104D039.8070602@haas.se> <20040726101438.GE61141@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
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Thanks both of you for the answer! I've once tried to CVSup a 5.1 prerelease to release and that didn't work too well. I found a computer with a spare disk where I installed 5.2.1, that took only 15 minutes and from there, restoring the backup was simple. I'll now use that computer to build a copy of the old 4.6.2 and then DD the whole disk to the old machine. Thanks for the help, it's easy to panic in situations like these. /Mathias Matthew Seaman wrote: >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 >>stole ALL the computers. They have their backup on an external firewire >>disk. >>At home I have a FreeBSD 4.6.2 setup - but I believe that 4.6.2 doesn't >>have firewire support, is this correct? >>Is there any way to add firewire support to the kernel or do I have to >>upgrade to a later version of FreeBSD? >>If so, what are the odds for a successfull upgrade from 4.6.2 to 4.10 ? >>A fresh reinstall would take a lot of time since the 4.6.2 server runs a >>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=fwohci&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+4.10-stable&format=html > >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 > > >
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