From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 28 17:57:11 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 290A6399 for ; Fri, 28 Nov 2014 17:57:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nm25-vm9.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com (nm25-vm9.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com [212.82.97.42]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 24BC3DDD for ; Fri, 28 Nov 2014 17:57:09 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.es; s=s2048; t=1417197421; bh=7gbFir7pqUf+r2+IsilMvyCsam7XO05yHw+CJ1tZfGs=; h=Date:From:To:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:From:Subject; b=s+x20C5UK7kT3v5UXg4B45XKxR3L/GiHntrsciC5n5MLmQIRt3khFmdC+nd7f1Cy/CsM4rkutcnooNgDfQYt6q3aUuKj2Ji+I70SPaAfmD1O2rb0HtwOqYnraG3A9r0Z4WxxAk5ydVm+D8+Typ419ysc0YAbJ/ogvZWIA2wy5WL+BFa7c2IenfpivkcM68y2toqd2lzwzUf8eOdMcYJxj3Rug/mXGNBRZJnxm9h+6Lc3/iJhoDvsPzKRzbKDHZ/NsB9LYonSz6rrJyTfE9DL67klHJs6ykQyje2EY/jWJiu6d6pTWSJFBP6aJDctmlaokJnWlESKj7+rXhcrVzA+XA== DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s2048; d=yahoo.es; b=nqgIx+m/RNTYkW+W5Ndhi7CuXKYxwjiBg+2ZKcq1LOfn/5MB1Tn8T8VZ5l8VFfCoPWkhlQz1tsoCcHjurYG7JJcLbtClQ351ThmwAdkQ2KRlJgLdlgZUlt0vH8VQoAxknqxOpHxVlOqrkbFFg5+0edbfkOe72b55i1fEAUWejkD4pXwAWpo6tXvGzLzyUCZSXpJFtgY0+BDwmSJVmvfRm4BaCaM8O3Jx2rR8nPu4Ldd6Le8lFLX/KVY4L2813UWACl4g9hw1J9H6P/YTAQpJ1Vq8NB1SnF4IaRNrFGbPiHz5i7Yv4zS5eXtKYefn6VPKTUgM6xnX6MuGZ97Q+AP5WA==; Received: from [212.82.98.52] by nm25.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 28 Nov 2014 17:57:01 -0000 Received: from [46.228.39.97] by tm5.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 28 Nov 2014 17:57:01 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp134.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 28 Nov 2014 17:57:01 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 355712.49458.bm@smtp134.mail.ir2.yahoo.com X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: j60TGDUVM1mcJsTTc6VZ2a9Ud87TRBLW9gaw5HGeFao3X7F SO8b2KCorMcXrrSwXexLzxhbj9wselpUzqxmt6VLBSyrCD_KWeQ4ug88w0hE hBMtSBCSHhReMEp0iYd0sQZiecfmws6wznE3lgwyLSQRNhNbLq5zdcjdu2xt 6zG4MveYceDenmH.WdcCHZXmpVfzZkWKaYQxIFE0O9GUO_GShxs6C76HulyA NdaPU8hgOVjL5W0DuArhUUDZcPXzmbkisVrZPZsadwloNt74ZUtQDMx8kRjI 5qn_hyqIY2sYB.DAsaQ08cqux2lejnxsGElrdXeP8o4W5PjkMW.eB9gsxdI7 AdWEJSa9L37oa5qGWnNhPiKJrKB8FA_TtC8.Wmu_8d8OJRByaj4R_fuZc5ss VBR2Ez9UKiJ_uWPWFSeXr.qJxP4RJbJurSnRU7KsbzwnY9_o1XMtuDyx3bre 60H4SceCCMWbotiy5ZpetVk0Xtnm5AwxhbVZbI_gZ7pA_1Qf4UYdVf774IGb eQOR7bPy1NZZyA4vwQMW5fqY1NiEbW0wEvZrL32W5WVVCC_M5H_HQfpLETYD SxbY7CuQsJ0UajkQTegowevykh7UwKMjPWoh4SqlltE6Eex6Y4lKYwu3qzuQ Lgr.GmQ-- X-Yahoo-SMTP: mX392iiswBAeJNdO_s.EW62LZDJR Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 18:56:59 +0100 From: Eduardo Morras To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing from running FreeBSD Message-Id: <20141128185659.7492fd85bcc5d852ed0b2c7e@yahoo.es> In-Reply-To: <5478AF5B.2050307@gmail.com> References: <20141128174840.6fa1bbb65c1d81e1f25f216e@yahoo.es> <5478A899.5050105@bsdjunk.com> <5478AF5B.2050307@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.4.2 (GTK+ 2.24.22; amd64-portbld-freebsd9.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 17:57:11 -0000 On Fri, 28 Nov 2014 19:22:35 +0200 Alnis Morics wrote: > > On 11/28/2014 18:53, Chris Petrik wrote: > > > > On 11/28/2014 10:48, Eduardo Morras wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> I have a server running FreeBSD 9.2-p15. I want to upgrade it to > >> release 10.1 with minimal shutdown so I'm thinking about > >> installing 10.1 in a new partition running the 10.1 installer from > >> 9.2., configure the system, install and configure ports, and then > >> restart with 10.1. I never did it before nor know if it can be > >> done and some questions emerge: > >> > >> a) Did someone tried it before? > >> b) Can it be done safety/ly? > >> c) How can I install ports or pkgs in 10.1 partition from 9.2, > >> perhaps with the pkg jail (-j) option? > >> > >> Thanks in advence > >> > >> > >> --- --- > >> Eduardo Morras > Yes, and you can make an OS dump before you upgrade, in case > something goes wrong. Yes, but recover from a dump is slower than a simple reboot if something goes wrong. That's why I want to try this, I need minimal downtime. I have seen the multipartition scheme used by nanobsd, where the upgrade is done to different partition [1] and if something fails, a reboot is enough. [1] https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/nanobsd/article.html 2.4 Updating NanoBSD --- --- Eduardo Morras