On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 01:47:04PM -0700 I heard the voice of Doug Barton, and lo! it spake thus: > > You could theoretically install onto a local system, tar it up, then > unpack it in the unused partition on your remote machine, yes. > However in order to set the new slice bootable you'd have to then > use the disk editor, and if you get even one thing the tiniest bit > wrong, you've bricked it.
Actually, you may be able to talk the 4.x loader into loading and booting off the created 6.x partition. That would save disk editing. Still, you only get one shot at it without console access. But you said you have a serial port, so you could stuff a serial console on it, which gives you lots more safety. I moved a couple 4.x machines to 6.x remotely with just a serial console, and I think I only ended up needing to use the serial console on one machine where I didn't properly nudge the loader to look in the right place. Sure was glad to have it there, though. -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ On the Internet, nobody can hear you scream. _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
