Re: Upgrading FreeBSD 3.5
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 02:33:34AM -0500, Crucial Servers wrote: Hi, I need some advice on steps for upgrading a very valueble machine. This machine has an uptime of 393 days. I need to install a secure version of curl this is our main focus right now. FreeBSD 3.5 ports collection is very b0rked and nothing works, I tried downloading the cvsup source and installing it, but now it cant find m3build. Secured version of curl? I don't know what you mean by that, but on a networked 3.5 system an insecure ftp/www client is the least of your security worries! My main focus is getting this OS to 4.9-STABLE the SAFE way and Yes its a contracted machine so its remote. I know there is going to be tons of b0rked programs when I'm all said and done. Can someone please explain how to tackle this animal slowly, I was thinking 4.0 then 4.5 then 4.9. Do you have a serial console installed? If so, you can just do a binary upgrade install instead of messing around trying to compile the sources. Make sure you do a complete system backup before you begin, of course. Kris pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Upgrading FreeBSD 3.5
On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 02:33:34 -0500 Crucial Servers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I need some advice on steps for upgrading a very valueble machine. This machine has an uptime of 393 days. I need to install a secure version of curl this is our main focus right now. FreeBSD 3.5 ports collection is very b0rked and nothing works, I tried downloading the cvsup source and installing it, but now it cant find m3build. My main focus is getting this OS to 4.9-STABLE the SAFE way and Yes its a contracted machine so its remote. I know there is going to be tons of b0rked programs when I'm all said and done. Can someone please explain how to tackle this animal slowly, I was thinking 4.0 then 4.5 then 4.9. If I can avoid this all together and install a secured version of curl it would be appreaciated. I really cant find the source anywhere. No clue what it would take to cvsup that... but what I would do is throw together a 4stable install together on another similar box and take care of all the tweakings, data importing, and ect. Then when that machines scheduled downtime/maintance/whatever arrivces swap out either the drive or the entire machine. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrading FreeBSD 3.5
I wish this was an option for me but the contracted machine is in CW's network operation center, not mine. I have no access to there machine besides remote root. James - Original Message - From: Vulpes Velox [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Crucial Servers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 1:37 AM Subject: Re: Upgrading FreeBSD 3.5 On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 02:33:34 -0500 Crucial Servers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I need some advice on steps for upgrading a very valueble machine. This machine has an uptime of 393 days. I need to install a secure version of curl this is our main focus right now. FreeBSD 3.5 ports collection is very b0rked and nothing works, I tried downloading the cvsup source and installing it, but now it cant find m3build. My main focus is getting this OS to 4.9-STABLE the SAFE way and Yes its a contracted machine so its remote. I know there is going to be tons of b0rked programs when I'm all said and done. Can someone please explain how to tackle this animal slowly, I was thinking 4.0 then 4.5 then 4.9. If I can avoid this all together and install a secured version of curl it would be appreaciated. I really cant find the source anywhere. No clue what it would take to cvsup that... but what I would do is throw together a 4stable install together on another similar box and take care of all the tweakings, data importing, and ect. Then when that machines scheduled downtime/maintance/whatever arrivces swap out either the drive or the entire machine. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrading FreeBSD 3.5
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 03:06:19PM -0500, Crucial Servers wrote: I wish this was an option for me but the contracted machine is in CW's network operation center, not mine. I have no access to there machine besides remote root. It's going to be pretty dangerous to update, then. You need some kind of fallback option when things go wrong - a remote serial console would be best. At the very least, set up an identical system locally that you can practise on. Kris pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Upgrading FreeBSD 3.5
Hi, I need some advice on steps for upgrading a very valueble machine. This machine has an uptime of 393 days. I need to install a secure version of curl this is our main focus right now. FreeBSD 3.5 ports collection is very b0rked and nothing works, I tried downloading the cvsup source and installing it, but now it cant find m3build. My main focus is getting this OS to 4.9-STABLE the SAFE way and Yes its a contracted machine so its remote. I know there is going to be tons of b0rked programs when I'm all said and done. Can someone please explain how to tackle this animal slowly, I was thinking 4.0 then 4.5 then 4.9. If I can avoid this all together and install a secured version of curl it would be appreaciated. I really cant find the source anywhere. James Thomas Chief Executive Officer Direct Line: 603-670-4008 General Line: 603-944-0823 Crucial Servers How crucial is your network www.crucialservers.net ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
