Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 10:50:45 -0400 (EDT) From: Kenneth W Cochran <kwc@world.std.com> To: Bill Moran <wmoran@iowna.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tracking -stable remotely/colocated Message-ID: <200107101450.KAA24867@world.std.com> References: <200107100227.WAA25392@world.std.com>
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>Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 09:55:37 -0400 >From: Bill Moran <wmoran@iowna.com> >To: Kenneth W Cochran <kwc@world.std.com> >CC: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org >Subject: Re: Tracking -stable remotely/colocated > >There is a way to accomplish this. It requires 2 computers. >The first is your server, the second is a terminal computer. >You never log into the actual server, but the terminal >computer is connected via serial line to the server to >act as a console. This way, you can reboot and everything >over an ssh connection and you see what's going on just as >if you were sitting right at it. I guess I should've mentioned: No serial-port access... :-/ It appears that installation requires console-mode. I guess now the question distills to "how to go to/from single-user mode remotely over ssh?" Or, perhaps rephrasing, "how do I accomplish installworld & install-kernel Truly Safely(tm)?" :) >-Bill -kc >Kenneth W Cochran wrote: >> Hello -stable: >> >> I would like to install & run FreeBSD & track -stable on a >> remote, headless, keyboardless machine in a colocation facility >> to which I have minimal physical access at best. >> >> Questions: >> >> - How do I install FreeBSD on such a machine? It has a CDROM >> drive, but is there a way to install without connecting a >> monitor & keyboard? >> >> - How do I "make installworld" remotely with the system quiesced >> (shut-down to single-user mode)? In other words, how can >> I access the system remotely from the network (Ethernet) >> via ssh if the system is single-user? I would want to do >> something like the following: >> 1. make buildworld... >> 2. shutdown now (go to single-user) >> 3. make installworld & new kernel & install new kernel >> 4. shutdown -r now >> >> - (Re)booting: How do ensure that the system reboots properly >> without any (physical) operator intervention (ie. after >> installing a new kernel)? >> >> I've searched the Handbook & mailing lists & some of the Core >> Team websites & can't find quite what I'm looking for. FAQ, >> documentation and/or "howto" pointers/references are *very* >> welcome. :) >> >> Many thanks, >> >> -kc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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