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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!news1.erols.com!hunter.premier.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Remote upgrade 2.10 -> 2.15 Date: 30 Sep 1996 21:50:52 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 26 Message-ID: <52pfbs$d93@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <fred-2009961528330001@titanium.shocking.com> <52jj8c$2p5@uriah.heep.sax.de> <fred-3009960054290001@titanium.shocking.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E fred@lightside.net (Fred Condo) wrote: > 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. Possible: yes. More hazardous: yes. The other suggested way at least allows you to grab the console and go to single-user mode if something goes wrong. You basically need the source distribution, since you're gonna upgrade from source. Either way, you have to manually fiddle with the /etc files if you desire. The problem is what to compile first. I usually compile and install a kernel first, to see whether it will work. But, after this, it's quite possible that the network won't come up after the reboot, so this seems a little risky in your case. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)