From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 11 00:52:52 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA08782 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 11 Feb 1997 00:52:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA08777 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 1997 00:52:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id AAA01536; Tue, 11 Feb 1997 00:52:44 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 00:52:44 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: That Doug Guy cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Remote upgrade help please In-Reply-To: <199702081821.KAA10094@smtp.connectnet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 8 Feb 1997, That Doug Guy wrote: > I need to upgrade a 2.1.5 to system to 2.2 remotely, and need > some advice on ways to do that. It would be nice if I could use > /stand/sysinstall to do the upgrade off the ftp site....but I tried > several variations of that without success. After tinkering with my > home system, it seems that the way to accomplish this is to download the > /src tree tarballs, use a custom installation from sysinstall to extract > them, build a new kernel, reboot, then make world. Oh, ow. You can't just download the directories to the local machine and use UFS install? We did this for 2.1.5 last time and intend to do it for 2.2 on our main server. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major