On 2006/09/22 16:31, Bernd Schoeller wrote: > remote installation through an SSH connection directly onto a local disk > (assuming you have created an identical disk layout first) [*]. You might > probably want to exclude /usr/src, /usr/ports and other directories that > you can not cause any problems.
The src, ports,.. themselves won't cause problems, but be careful about the free space being the same or lower on the test machine. This is particularly important when you move to 3.9. Libraries happen to be installed after some of the binaries that depend on them; if you run out of disk space between these steps, your upgrade just became more interesting. (Ok, you still get tar and ftp, but no gunzip).
