Juli Mallett wrote: > > Find another box where it has already been successfully installed, > > and an ISO image has been built from sources. > > I don't have a CD burner. I have no ability to burn a CD at all.
You don't burn a CD from the other box, you install from it. Though FreeBSD doesn't technically support it, because they do not make the sysinstall image easily available, you can upgrade via a CDROM FS image via NFS, without even needing a local CDROM installed on the machine being upgraded. To do this, copy over /stand/sysinstall to /tmp/sysinstall (it is crunched, therefore av[0] needs to be "sysinstall"), mount the image via NFS, run the sysinstall in /tmp, and select "local file system" for the media from which you will be upgrading. You must manullay run disklabel to change the boot code, after the upgrade, and prior to the reboot (the upgrade code in sysinstall makes assumptions about the boot media when it comes to the boot code installation, and those assumptions are often invalis, as in this case). If you are using SSH, you will potentially need to add the ssh line to the pam.conf file, or you will need physical console access to get back into the machine after you reboot with the new OS. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
