Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 09:44:21 -0800 From: "Dan O'Connor" <dan@ferrarishields.com> To: "Philip Hallstrom" <freebsd@philip.pjkh.com>, <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Upgrading a remote box from 5.3 to 6-stable.... Message-ID: <06aa01c6179f$d2015760$0599460a@dan> References: <20060111181516.H40477@wolf.pjkh.com>
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> I recently got a leased server that's running 5.3. It's in Texas. > I'm in Washington. I want to upgrade it to 6-STABLE. In the update > docs it says that "when doing a major release upgrade, it is required > that you boot into single user mode to do the installworld." > > Which obviously is a problem. And I find it hard to believe it's > really necessary as this is going to be an issue for a lot of people. > Is this similar to the old recommendation of doing this "unless your > system is relatively quiet"? Although you're not supposed to do it, I upgraded a 5.4 system to 6.0, and several 6.0-RELEASE to 6.0p1, without dropping to single-user mode, and without any problems. But, these are "relatively quite" servers (Apache, Samba, Postfix, Network Gateway) with no other users logged in. YMMV... ~Dan
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