Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 18:39:08 -0400 From: <bob@a1poweruser.com> To: "Lauri Anteploon / ctrl-L" <lauri@bitifarm.ee>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: make installworld (remotely) Message-ID: <MIEPLLIBMLEEABPDBIEGOEAFHEAA.bob@a1poweruser.com> In-Reply-To: <!~!UENERkVCMDkAAQACAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABgAAAAAAAAAraBMZwunwUCj0cCUC/kKUsKAAAAQAAAAqIHWCLnTv0OrBh8ZodNjrAEAAAAA@bitifarm.ee>
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Doing a remote buildworld is just too dangerous for an production box and expensive in backups because you have all the source files to deal with. The more popular method of updating a remote system is to have an local development box that has same components and do a fresh install to a empty ata hard drive and them ship new HD to remote site and swap for old one. If needed, you recover by swapping old one back in. Or another popular way is after populating new HD, build an bootable system on a cdrom then ship cdrom to remote site and swap that. -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Lauri Anteploon / ctrl-L Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 5:30 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: make installworld (remotely) Hi. Im running FreeBSD 5.3-Release #0 and would like to do buildworld and buildkernel. The problem is that the machine is a remote one. Handbook states that to run "mergemaster" and "make installworld" I should boot into single user mode. That would mean that I can't access the machine remotely anymore am I correct? Would it be okey to run make installworld when running in multiuser mode and being the only person whos logged on and maby shutting down most of the network services (leaving my sshd running though) ? Lauri Anteploon HYPERLINK "mailto:lauri@bitifarm.ee"lauri@bitifarm.ee 5056999 HYPERLINK "http://www.bitifarm.ee/" -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.11.2 - Release Date: 2.05.2005
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