Lucky, On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 05:14:35AM -0800, Lucky Green wrote: # A few folks have asked me if I knew if there is an how-to that could be # used as a basis for upgrading a STABLE box to 5.0 using not the # procedures in UPGRADING, but rather performing a clean 5.0 install on a # fresh disk followed by restoring whatever is required to make the new # install look like the old machine. (I.e., /home, password files, ssh # keys, etc). # # Is anybody here aware of such a document?
Not sure if it may fit the bill, but I'm currently writing an article for the FreeBSD handbook titled "FreeBSD From Scratch". From the abstract: This article describes my efforts at FreeBSD From Scratch: a fully automated installation of a customized FreeBSD system compiled from source, including compilation of all your favorite ports and configured to match your idea of the perfect system. If you think "make world" is a wonderful concept, FreeBSD From Scratch extends it to "make universe". Grab it from http://www.schweikhardt.net/article.html It's pretty stable but it has not yet been officially been published and I would welcome you as a test driver. If you're lucky (pun intended :-) it may do the trick for you if you hack the stage_[12].sh scripts. Regards, Jens -- Jens Schweikhardt http://www.schweikhardt.net/ SIGSIG -- signature too long (core dumped) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
