Date: Sat, 08 Feb 97 10:20:17 -0800 From: "That Doug Guy" <tiller@connectnet.com> To: "FreeBSD Questions" <FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Remote upgrade help please Message-ID: <199702081821.KAA10094@smtp.connectnet.com>
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Howdy, :-) I need to upgrade a 2.1.5 to system to 2.2 remotely, and need some advice on ways to do that. It would be nice if I could use /stand/sysinstall to do the upgrade off the ftp site....but I tried several variations of that without success. After tinkering with my home system, it seems that the way to accomplish this is to download the /src tree tarballs, use a custom installation from sysinstall to extract them, build a new kernel, reboot, then make world. Basically I need comments on this idea, and of course, if there is a better way to accomplish what I want to do, I'm all ears. :) Will I be missing anything this way? Are there any dangers? The make world is attractive given my understanding that re-compiling will help us take advantage of the Ppro 200 that the system is running on. Any truth to this? And how much advantage are we talking about? Obviously I'm going to back up /etc....anything else I should back up, watch for? Yes, I am new at this.....no, I don't need flames. :) I did searches on the docs and mailing lists and didn't see anything that applied to my situation. Thanks in advance for any help you can provide. Doug
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