Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 14:25:35 +0100 (BST) From: Alex Hayward <xelah-freebsd@xelah.com> To: Scott Harrison <scott@mithrandir.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best practices for remote upgrade? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0605101416180.3463@sphinx.mythic-beasts.com> In-Reply-To: <ECEE3367-C048-437F-B1D6-1156DB98C65E@mithrandir.com> References: <372C34B7-18BC-4061-99ED-8321E8109CF7@mithrandir.com> <20060508231759.GC545@bunrab.catwhisker.org> <20060509105609.GC66029@leia.lambermont.dyndns.org> <ECEE3367-C048-437F-B1D6-1156DB98C65E@mithrandir.com>
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On Tue, 9 May 2006, Scott Harrison wrote: > This sounds nice except that I do not have my disk already > partitioned like this. Can I take a 4.7 machine (for example) and > live repartition it to be like this? It /is/ possible to upgrade from at least some versions of FreeBSD 4 to some versions of FreeBSD 5 remotely without a spare partition (I've done it a few times), but there's lots that can go wrong. See http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/stable/2004-01/0033.html Watch out, though, after the 'tar' step you may find your binaries don't work (including binaries like 'reboot'). Keeping a copy is a good idea.
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