From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 26 13:14:40 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4738116A4CE for ; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 13:14:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mxfep02.bredband.com (mxfep02.bredband.com [195.54.107.73]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AC1343D3F for ; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 13:14:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mathias_nospam@haas.se) Received: from haas.se ([213.113.216.89] [213.113.216.89]) by mxfep02.bredband.com with SMTP id <20040726131438.WOCL23867.mxfep02.bredband.com@haas.se> for ; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 15:14:38 +0200 Received: (qmail 5283 invoked from network); 26 Jul 2004 13:14:21 -0000 Received: from mathias_nospam@haas.se by p3-550.haas.se by uid 82 with qmail-scanner-1.20 (spamassassin: 2.61. Clear:RC:1(192.168.10.10):. Processed in 0.027759 secs); 26 Jul 2004 13:14:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.10.10?) (192.168.10.10) by p3-550.haas.se with SMTP; 26 Jul 2004 13:14:21 -0000 Message-ID: <41050414.7070902@haas.se> Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 15:16:04 +0200 From: Mathias Haas User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (Windows/20040707) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthew Seaman References: <4104D039.8070602@haas.se> <20040726101438.GE61141@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20040726101438.GE61141@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Urgent! Firewire support in 4.6.2? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: mathias@haas.se List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 13:14:40 -0000 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 > > >