Remote upgrade of 4.X-5.3-Stable

From: Dwayne MacKinnon (Dwayne.MacKinnon_at_xwave.com)
Date: 02/22/05

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    Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 16:22:09 -0500
To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org

    Hi all,

    I've been experimenting with upgrading 4.X to 5.3-STABLE. The challenge
    I've been given is that the box to be upgraded is physically
    inaccessible and so there's no console access. All I have to work with
    is ssh and scp.

    In our lab I built a box to 5.3-STABLE. I then used the /usr/obj
    directories from that build to start a "remote" upgrade on another lab box.

    Things have gone reasonably well. I was able to successfully make
    installworld using a rc.d script even though it reboots into multi-user
    mode after installing the kernel.

    The problem is that rc.conf isn't getting sourced properly after the
    installworld. I figure that something more is needed with mergemaster. I
    run mergemaster -ia through my rc.d script, but that's apparently
    insufficient.

    So what I'm wondering is this: What do I need in place to make sure that
    networking will come up and sshd will start after upgrading 4.X to 5.3?

    Thanks,
    DMK
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