make installworld (remotely)

2005-05-03 Thread Lauri Anteploon / ctrl-L
Hi. Im running FreeBSD 5.3-Release #0 and would like to do buildworld and buildkernel. The problem is that the machine is a remote one. Handbook states that to run mergemaster and make installworld I should boot into single user mode. That would mean that I can't access the machine remotely

Re: make installworld (remotely)

2005-05-03 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 12:29:40AM +0300, Lauri Anteploon / ctrl-L wrote: Hi. Im running FreeBSD 5.3-Release #0 and would like to do buildworld and buildkernel. The problem is that the machine is a remote one. Handbook states that to run mergemaster and make installworld I should boot into

Re: make installworld (remotely)

2005-05-03 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 12:29:40AM +0300, Lauri Anteploon / ctrl-L wrote: Would it be okey to run make installworld when running in multiuser mode and being the only person whos logged on and maby shutting down most of the network services (leaving my sshd running though) ?

Re: make installworld (remotely)

2005-05-03 Thread Pat Maddox
http://layer0.layeredtech.com/showthread.php?t=2 Walks you through upgrading remotely. On 5/3/05, Lauri Anteploon / ctrl-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. Im running FreeBSD 5.3-Release #0 and would like to do buildworld and buildkernel. The problem is that the machine is a remote one.

RE: make installworld (remotely)

2005-05-03 Thread bob
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Lauri Anteploon / ctrl-L Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 5:30 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: make installworld (remotely) Hi. Im running FreeBSD 5.3-Release #0 and would like to do buildworld and buildkernel. The problem is that the machine

Re: make installworld (remotely)

2005-05-03 Thread Pat Maddox
then ship cdrom to remote site and swap that. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Lauri Anteploon / ctrl-L Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 5:30 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: make installworld (remotely) Hi. Im running

Re: make installworld (remotely)

2005-05-03 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 08:50:47PM -0600, Pat Maddox wrote: Huh? How about the many many production machines located at remote datacenters? How do people upgrade those? Personally speaking, by making sure I have a suitable backup plan for when something unexpected happens (usually serial