Re: NEWBIE: Best way to upgrade?

From: Dave Uhring (daveuhring_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 06/19/05 

Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 22:29:18 -0500

On Sun, 19 Jun 2005 03:04:53 +0000, russell kym horsell wrote:

> Dave Uhring <daveuhring@yahoo.com> wrote:
> ...
>> We were dicussing a live upgrade rather than booting from floppy or cdrom.
>
> I usually just upload the .rd file and upgrade via ftp or nfs (if
> the bins are around locally).

I take the CD to the client's server room, place it into one of the
servers then copy the tarballs to /usr/INSTALL. Make a tarball of
/usr/INSTALL and scp it to the other servers. That way all the tarballs
are local to each server and I need not enable otherwise unnecessary
services.

All upgrades are done over remote connection via ssh. The only time I
need to spend in the server room is that required to drop the CD into the
tray.

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