AW: how to remote update 4.10 -> 5.3?

From: Karl M. Joch (k.joch_at_kmjeuro.com)
Date: 12/30/04

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    Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 08:54:32 +0100
    
    

     
    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
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    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
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