Josh Grosse wrote: > On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 03:53:49PM -0400, I wrote: >> What I have always done is a "manual" upgrade: >> >> 1. Back up. >> 2. Boot in single user mode >> 3. # mount -a -t ffs >> 4. For each fileset except etcXX.tgz and xetcXX.tgz, issue: >> # tar xpzf <fileset> -C / >> 5. Using etcXX.tgz and xetcXX.tgz, manually update /etc and /var, and make >> any other changes, per the upgrade FAQ. The mergemaster port/package >> makes this fairly quick and easy. > > I am replying to my own post because I neglected to add: > > 6. # cd /dev; sh MAKEDEV all > 7. Rewrite boot blocks (arch dependant).
am I missing something, or did you neglect to help him with his question, which was about how to upgrade with RAIDframe in use? I don't see you installing a kernel at all in your process, RAIDframe or otherwise... anyway, to answer the original question: You will need a custom kernel including the RAIDframe driver. Depends on how much of your system is RAIDframed. If you got carried away and did the whole system, I hope you have a spare machine to build the new RAIDframe kernel on. You then use the in-place upgrade process in upgrade41.html. IF you have just (say) /home RAIDframed, you can probably not mount the RAIDframe partitions, upgrade, build a new kernel, boot from it, and then mount your RAIDframe partitions. Alternately, if you have some unallocated disk space available, you could probably build a temporary work area...but that's not trivial. Nick.
