From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 15 11:12:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B310D1507A for ; Tue, 15 Jun 1999 11:12:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA26283; Tue, 15 Jun 1999 11:12:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 11:12:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: gerti-freebsdq@bitart.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Remote upgrade from 3.1 to 3.2? In-Reply-To: <19990611223228.17570.qmail@camelot.bitart.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, Gerd Knops wrote: > I have a number of remote machines running 3.1. They were all installed from > copies of the same 'Master' disk, containing a 3.1 minimum install and some > custom code. > > Is there a way to upgrade the remote systems via the network, without any > 'physical' contact to the machines? Not safely. You risk trashing it if your telnet session dies because you overlaid an open library or binary. Plus you need to reinstall the boot blocks and build a new kernel. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message