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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!atmnet.net!news.lightside.com!titanium.shocking.com!user From: fred@lightside.net (Fred Condo) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Remote upgrade 2.10 -> 2.15 Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 00:54:29 -0700 Organization: Lightside, Inc. - Internet Access Lines: 25 Message-ID: <fred-3009960054290001@titanium.shocking.com> References: <fred-2009961528330001@titanium.shocking.com> <52jj8c$2p5@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: titanium.shocking.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit x-no-archive: yes In article <52jj8c$2p5@uriah.heep.sax.de>, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) wrote: >fred@lightside.net (Fred Condo) wrote: > >> I have been asked to upgrade someone's FreeBSD system from 2.1.0-RELEASE >> to 2.1.5-RELEASE. Problem: I am 500 miles from the server. What is the >> best way to do this task remotely? The FAQ's and Manual don't seem to >> address this topic. Thank you! > >Connect his first serial line to a modem, and use a serial console >(either -h at the boot prompt, or you can install modified bootblock >that enforce a serial console). Thank you for your response. Would it be possible to do this over a telnet session, say by getting the appropriate source code and compiling the kernel and world? If so, which distribution? Since the end of the -stable tree, I've lost track of how to do such upgrades. -- http://www.lightside.net/~fred/ + net access + http://www.lightside.net/ "Attempts to control the use of encryption technology are wrong in principle, unworkable in practice, and damaging to the long term economic value of the information networks." - UK Labour Party