Re: Upgrading FreeBSD to a new release

2004-06-11 Thread Peter Pauly
On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 11:41:15PM +0200, Roman Kennke wrote: Hi list, One thing, that is making me _not_ using FreeBSD is, that I see no way to easily upgrade from, say 5.1 to 5.2 (just an example), over network. This may or may not be an option for you: both IBM and HP (Compaq) offer

RE: Upgrading FreeBSD to a new release

2004-06-11 Thread JJB
, 2004 1:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Upgrading FreeBSD to a new release On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 11:41:15PM +0200, Roman Kennke wrote: Hi list, One thing, that is making me _not_ using FreeBSD is, that I see no way to easily upgrade from, say 5.1 to 5.2 (just an example), over

Re: Upgrading FreeBSD to a new release

2004-06-11 Thread Peter Pauly
On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 01:54:26PM -0400, JJB wrote: Are these supervisor cards unique to IBM HP? Can the card be bought separately and will they work on generic motherboard? Do you have URL for info on these supervisor cards? They are unique to each manufacturer. I am not aware of a

Re: Upgrading FreeBSD to a new release

2004-06-11 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, Peter Pauly wrote: On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 01:54:26PM -0400, JJB wrote: Are these supervisor cards unique to IBM HP? Can the card be bought separately and will they work on generic motherboard? Do you have URL for info on these supervisor cards? They are unique

RE: Upgrading FreeBSD to a new release

2004-06-07 Thread Lucas Holt
Of course you wouldn't want to upgrade from 5.1 to 5.2 remotely. You have to fix things between these two releases in single user. In my case, the userland wouldn't completely install. I had to manually copy files from the build directory to their locations on the file system in order to get

RE: Upgrading FreeBSD to a new release

2004-06-07 Thread Roman Kennke
Ok, thank you all for response. As far as I see things now, the best way to upgrade from one stable release to the next is via source upgrade. Configuration files probably need some attention, because mergemaster cannot be run remotely. Upgrading from one major release to the next (4.x - 5.x) is

Upgrading FreeBSD to a new release

2004-06-06 Thread Roman Kennke
Hi list, One thing, that is making me _not_ using FreeBSD is, that I see no way to easily upgrade from, say 5.1 to 5.2 (just an example), over network. I mean, I have a server running, to which I have no physical access. The only way to maintain it, is over SSH. The upgrade instructions in

Re: Upgrading FreeBSD to a new release

2004-06-06 Thread Remko Lodder
Hey Roman, Roman Kennke wrote: Hi list, One thing, that is making me _not_ using FreeBSD is, that I see no way to easily upgrade from, say 5.1 to 5.2 (just an example), over network. I mean, I have a server running, to which I have no physical access. The only way to maintain it, is over SSH. The

Re: Upgrading FreeBSD to a new release

2004-06-06 Thread Kent Stewart
On Sunday 06 June 2004 02:44 pm, Remko Lodder wrote: Hey Roman, Roman Kennke wrote: Hi list, One thing, that is making me _not_ using FreeBSD is, that I see no way to easily upgrade from, say 5.1 to 5.2 (just an example), over network. I mean, I have a server running, to which I have

Re: Upgrading FreeBSD to a new release

2004-06-06 Thread Roman Kennke
Hi, One thing, that is making me _not_ using FreeBSD is, that I see no way to easily upgrade from, say 5.1 to 5.2 (just an example), .. Apart from that i updated my systems many times, without being in single user mode, with an ssh connection. This doesn't work on the upgrade to 5.2

Re: Upgrading FreeBSD to a new release

2004-06-06 Thread Kent Stewart
On Sunday 06 June 2004 02:55 pm, Roman Kennke wrote: Hi, One thing, that is making me _not_ using FreeBSD is, that I see no way to easily upgrade from, say 5.1 to 5.2 (just an example), .. Apart from that i updated my systems many times, without being in single user mode,

Re: Upgrading FreeBSD to a new release

2004-06-06 Thread Roman Kennke
Am Mo, den 07.06.2004 schrieb Kent Stewart um 0:03: On Sunday 06 June 2004 02:55 pm, Roman Kennke wrote: Hi, One thing, that is making me _not_ using FreeBSD is, that I see no way to easily upgrade from, say 5.1 to 5.2 (just an example), .. Apart from that i updated

RE: Upgrading FreeBSD to a new release

2004-06-06 Thread JJB
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kent Stewart Sent: Sunday, June 06, 2004 5:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Remko Lodder; Roman Kennke Subject: Re: Upgrading FreeBSD to a new release On Sunday 06 June 2004 02:44 pm, Remko Lodder wrote: Hey Roman, Roman Kennke wrote

Re: Upgrading FreeBSD to a new release

2004-06-06 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, Roman Kennke wrote: All I want is not reinstalling the system after every few releases. The FreeBSD team should care about an possibility to easily upgrade from at least one point release to another. Only my suggestion. Have you read the Handbook chapter called The Cutting

Re: Upgrading FreeBSD to a new release

2004-06-06 Thread Robert Huff
Roman Kennke writes: All I want is not reinstalling the system after every few releases. My first installation of FreeBSD was 2.0.5. Since then I have done a clean install for x.0 releases - as a matter of policy (excuse to upgrade hardware, plus it cleans out orphaned files) but

Re: Upgrading FreeBSD to a new release

2004-06-06 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
On Sun, 6 Jun 2004, Roman Kennke wrote: Hi list, One thing, that is making me _not_ using FreeBSD is, that I see no way to easily upgrade from, say 5.1 to 5.2 (just an example), over network. I mean, I have a server running, to which I have no physical access. The only way to maintain it, is over