From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 10 13:25:37 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2A0416A5FB for ; Wed, 10 May 2006 13:25:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xelah@sphinx.mythic-beasts.com) Received: from wumpus.mythic-beasts.com (wumpus.mythic-beasts.com [212.69.37.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80A8343D58 for ; Wed, 10 May 2006 13:25:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from xelah@sphinx.mythic-beasts.com) Received: from sphinx.mythic-beasts.com ([212.69.37.6]) by wumpus.mythic-beasts.com with esmtp (Exim 4.44) id 1Fdoh6-00069c-FK; Wed, 10 May 2006 14:25:36 +0100 Received: from xelah (helo=localhost) by sphinx.mythic-beasts.com with local-esmtp (Exim 4.51) id 1Fdoh5-0005tJ-RW; Wed, 10 May 2006 14:25:35 +0100 Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 14:25:35 +0100 (BST) From: Alex Hayward X-X-Sender: xelah@sphinx.mythic-beasts.com To: Scott Harrison In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <372C34B7-18BC-4061-99ED-8321E8109CF7@mithrandir.com> <20060508231759.GC545@bunrab.catwhisker.org> <20060509105609.GC66029@leia.lambermont.dyndns.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: Alex Hayward Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best practices for remote upgrade? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 13:25:40 -0000 On Tue, 9 May 2006, Scott Harrison wrote: > This sounds nice except that I do not have my disk already > partitioned like this. Can I take a 4.7 machine (for example) and > live repartition it to be like this? It /is/ possible to upgrade from at least some versions of FreeBSD 4 to some versions of FreeBSD 5 remotely without a spare partition (I've done it a few times), but there's lots that can go wrong. See http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/stable/2004-01/0033.html Watch out, though, after the 'tar' step you may find your binaries don't work (including binaries like 'reboot'). Keeping a copy is a good idea.