Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 15:37:35 -0700 From: Joshua Oreman <oremanj@webserver.get-linux.org> To: Axel Rau <Axel.Rau@Chaos1.DE> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fbsd upgrade on vinum filesystems with sysinstall Message-ID: <20030514223735.GB28337@webserver.get-linux.org> In-Reply-To: <CA27EDA1-85E9-11D7-9D25-0050E466806A@Chaos1.DE> References: <20030513224342.GB20773@webserver.get-linux.org> <CA27EDA1-85E9-11D7-9D25-0050E466806A@Chaos1.DE>
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On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 10:55:19AM +0200 or thereabouts, Axel Rau seemed to write: > > Am Mittwoch, 14.05.03, um 00:43 Uhr (Europe/Berlin) schrieb Joshua > Oreman: > > >On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 11:08:20PM +0200 or thereabouts, Axel Rau > >seemed to write: > >>I just tried to upgrade my 4.7 box to 4.8 REL and found myself > >>in sysinstalls labeleditor and tried to specify the mount point > >>for /usr which is on a vinum device. > >>There seems to be no vinum support in sysinstall. > >>How shall I proceed? > > > >Don't use binary upgrade for vinum. > >Build from /usr/src. > >See for more info: > >FreeBSD Handbook, chapter 21: "The Cutting Edge". > > Sorry, this box will be a bastion host, so there will be no compiler > tools installed. Then why not build on another computer and NFS export /usr/src? Then all you need is 'make' and 'install'. > > I just tried the following: > 1. I installed a tar archive of /stand from another 4.8 box at /usr > and linked to / (sysinstall seems to unpack in /stand which exceeds > the size of my root fs). > 2. I shut down to single user mode and started the 4.8 sysinstall > (vinum subsystem still running) > 3. I did a standard upgrade from CD and rebooted > So far everything seems fine, but can anybody confirm that this is > a supported procedure? Can't confirm, but if it works, great. > > Axel > > Computing @ Chaos Claudius -Motivation by consistency: Cocoa > Axel Rau, Frankfurt, Germany Phone:49-69-951418-0, Fax: -55 > email:Axel.Rau@Chaos1.DE,Mime ok,MS-Word-documents only as HTML
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