From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 30 7: 0:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from raven.ravenbrook.com (raven.ravenbrook.com [193.82.131.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2892F37B403 for ; Mon, 30 Jul 2001 07:00:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nb@ravenbrook.com) Received: from thrush.ravenbrook.com (thrush.ravenbrook.com [193.112.141.249]) by raven.ravenbrook.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA18467 for ; Mon, 30 Jul 2001 15:00:09 +0100 (BST) Received: from thrush.ravenbrook.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by thrush.ravenbrook.com (8.11.4/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f6UE0Bl59830 for ; Mon, 30 Jul 2001 15:00:11 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nb@thrush.ravenbrook.com) From: Nick Barnes To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Upgrading 2.2.8 machine without a long downtime Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 15:00:11 +0100 Message-ID: <59828.996501611@thrush.ravenbrook.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have a machine running 2.2.8 which I want to upgrade to 4.3-RELEASE (en route to RELENG_4_3). However, I would rather not take the machine down for the couple of hours normally necessary for an installation. I have a spare hard disk in the machine; is it possible to do a network install of 4.3 to this other disk, without taking the machine down? If so, I could then simply reboot to that disk. If this is possible, how do I achieve it? Nick B To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message