Hi! Has anyone managed to update a 4.10 system to 5.3 remotely, i.e. without console access, and without spare disk partitions? I have a bunch of 4.10 machines that are too far away for me to actually do the update hands on. I've tried it on a test machine, it fails half way through installworld, and really needs single user mode to succeed. The install procedure fails since it starts using the newly installed stuff, things like sh(1) and test(1), and they cannot find their libc.so.5, I guess... One idea I have is copying / and /usr to some other place and set ldconfig and PATH=some/other/place and when building and installing. Haven't tried it yet, thought I'd hear anyone on this list has a better suggestion? Optimally, there would a couple of gigs on a separate spare disk partition so I could just install everything there and use it upon reboot. Problem is, there is no such space. :( Thanks Palle
On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 09:30:37PM +0100, Palle Girgensohn wrote:> Has anyone managed to update a 4.10 system to 5.3 remotely, i.e. without > console access, and without spare disk partitions? > > I have a bunch of 4.10 machines that are too far away for me to actually do > the update hands on. I've tried it on a test machine, it fails half way > through installworld, and really needs single user mode to succeed. The > install procedure fails since it starts using the newly installed stuff, > things like sh(1) and test(1), and they cannot find their libc.so.5, I > guess... > > One idea I have is copying / and /usr to some other place and set ldconfig > and PATH=some/other/place and when building and installing. Haven't tried > it yet, thought I'd hear anyone on this list has a better suggestion? > > Optimally, there would a couple of gigs on a separate spare disk partition > so I could just install everything there and use it upon reboot. Problem > is, there is no such space. :(In general, my suggestion would be, don't do that. Do you really need to upgrade? Remember, 4.11 is likely to be supported for security upgrades into early 2006 so if your machines are working and you don't really need the new functionality, I'd suggest avoiding an upgrade. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20041229/44afc327/attachment.bin
i managed to update remote server by sending a prepared harddisk which was mounted by a local technical staff. after the system boots you can mount the old partitions and move them to the new harddisk. Then partition the old harddisks, newfs with ufs2 and move the data back in place. This works very well. after everything is done the sent harddisk can be removed and the system work with the original hardware. Everything else then a fresh install and formating with ufs2 looks like to make no sence. -- Best regards / Mit freundlichen Gruessen, Karl M. Joch -----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht----- Von: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org] Im Auftrag von Palle Girgensohn Gesendet: Mittwoch, 29. Dezember 2004 21:31 An: stable@freebsd.org Betreff: how to remote update 4.10 -> 5.3? Hi! Has anyone managed to update a 4.10 system to 5.3 remotely, i.e. without console access, and without spare disk partitions? I have a bunch of 4.10 machines that are too far away for me to actually do the update hands on. I've tried it on a test machine, it fails half way through installworld, and really needs single user mode to succeed. The install procedure fails since it starts using the newly installed stuff, things like sh(1) and test(1), and they cannot find their libc.so.5, I guess... One idea I have is copying / and /usr to some other place and set ldconfig and PATH=some/other/place and when building and installing. Haven't tried it yet, thought I'd hear anyone on this list has a better suggestion? Optimally, there would a couple of gigs on a separate spare disk partition so I could just install everything there and use it upon reboot. Problem is, there is no such space. :( Thanks Palle _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"