Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Wed, 24 Dec 2008 12:34:04 -0600
From:      Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz>
To:        Tom Worster <fsb@thefsb.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: install/upgrade FREEBSD on a remote server
Message-ID:  <4952809C.3000707@daleco.biz>
In-Reply-To: <C577DD2F.6F44%fsb@thefsb.org>
References:  <C577DD2F.6F44%fsb@thefsb.org>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Tom Worster wrote:
> what ways exist to upgrade a remote server (to which you have no terminal
> server attached) if the currently installed FREEBSD is too old for
> freebsd-update? besides asking someone local to the server to help, i mean.

The Canonical Way of Auld(tm)* is detailed in the handbook.
It involves fetching the source code via cvsup/csup, and
rebuilding the kernel and world(userland), etc.

The entire process is covered in Chapter 24 of the handbook;
see http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/synching.html
for the beginning of the "old way" part.

HTH,

Kevin Kinsey
-- 
Neurotics build castles in the sky,
Psychotics live in them,
And psychiatrists collect the rent.

* Hee hee.  For many of us, it's the Only Way ;-)



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?4952809C.3000707>