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>
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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 ;-)
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