On Wed, Aug 11, 1999 at 12:07:41AM -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > The use of /stand/sysinstall to do a live upgrade has always been > discouraged, though it's not outright disallowed since I believe in > every man's right to blow his feet off if he really wants to. > > Nonetheless, for the expected installation experience one is > encouraged to boot the desired OS release's installation media and > select an upgrade instead of a new install.
Uhmmm, what if we don't have a floppy drive? I suggested my colleague score /stand/sysinstall off one of my 3.2 systems so he could upgrade his 3.1. Has there been though put in to making a net-able upgrade set, maybe you have a sysinstall which pops the new kernel in to place, reboots into sysinstall like a floppy, and then gets ready to upgrade. Maybe we could use an MFS floppy? Might be a fun project to take on ... can one reboot into an MFS partition, or how hard would it be to try a "reboot system into upgrade floppy" without trashing the underlying system, in case the user wanted to bail ... maybe a kernel that chroot's itself into an /upgrade directory? Thoughts? -dman -- dannyman - http://www.dannyland.org/~dannyman/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
