Re: Installation on private network
Raymond Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a freebsd system which is on a private network, there is no path to the internet. I am looking for methods to update the system to a new version level under these situations. Is there someway to synchronize the sources by burning a CD, without being able to employ CVSsup or similar? I see how to bring ports over manually and how to do simple kernal option changes, my question is in regard to going from O/S version 6.0 to 6.1 or 6.1 to 6.1 stable . Thanks. You have a number of choices: 1) You can burn your own distro CD and upgrade. There are a number of HOWTOs floating around the internet, and it seems as if the process is getting simpler with each new release. 2) You could burn a copy of the /usr/src that matches the version you want to upgrade to and then copy it from CD to the local machine and do the make build|install process. 3) We run our own cvsup server at the office. Many servers do not have a path to the Internet, but they can access our local cvsup server to do updates. The cvsup server (obviously) needs access to the Internet. The cvsup-mirror port makes this particularly easy to set up. Hope this helps. -- Bill Moran There's more'n seventy little earth's spinning about the galaxy, and the meek have inherited not a one. Malcom Reynolds ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation on private network
On Tuesday 04 July 2006 19:58, Raymond Owens wrote: I have a freebsd system which is on a private network, there is no path to the internet. I am looking for methods to update the system to a new version level under these situations. Is there someway to synchronize the sources by burning a CD, without being able to employ CVSsup or similar? I see how to bring ports over manually and how to do simple kernal option changes, my question is in regard to going from O/S version 6.0 to 6.1 or 6.1 to 6.1 stable . Thanks. You must use one of methods described here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/synching.html extract: The primary services we offer are Anonymous CVS, CVSup, and CTM. Once you have the source, you can use any medium* available to get it to the system in question. So, you can update world without internet access. *) that is any medium providing unix file system characteristics, that is rock ridge and iso9660, raw tar and friends, tar and friends on iso9660, a file-backed UFS on iso9660 and others. But, you have to create the CD with a Unix-like OS. Also, from time to time snapshots of stable become available in CD images. HTH, Nikos ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation on private network
On Tuesday 04 July 2006 21:03, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: *) that is any medium providing unix file system characteristics No, that's not true. There are only plain files and directories in /usr/src. There are no soft links, as I was expecting. So you can use any filesystem. Any filesystems that supports files and directories, that's easy to find :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation on private network
The simplest way is to take the ISO of the release you want to load and install as an upgrade. You will need to remove or move /usr/src first as an upgrade won't overwrite it if it is found. -Derek At 11:58 AM 7/4/2006, Raymond Owens wrote: I have a freebsd system which is on a private network, there is no path to the internet. I am looking for methods to update the system to a new version level under these situations. Is there someway to synchronize the sources by burning a CD, without being able to employ CVSsup or similar? I see how to bring ports over manually and how to do simple kernal option changes, my question is in regard to going from O/S version 6.0 to 6.1 or 6.1 to 6.1 stable . Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
