Huh? How about the many many production machines located at remote datacenters? How do people upgrade those?
I've personally done hundreds of remote upgrades without ever rendering a machine unrecoverable. In fact, the only problems I've run into are with a noexec /tmp, but that's easily fixable when doing an upgrade. On 5/3/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Doing a remote buildworld is just too dangerous for an production > box and expensive in backups because you have all the source files > to deal with. The more popular method of updating a remote system is > to have an local development box that has same components and do a > fresh install to a empty ata hard drive and them ship new HD to > remote site and swap for old one. If needed, you recover by swapping > old one back in. Or another popular way is after populating new HD, > build an bootable system on a cdrom then ship cdrom to remote site > and swap that. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Lauri > Anteploon / ctrl-L > Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 5:30 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: make installworld (remotely) > > Hi. > Im running FreeBSD 5.3-Release #0 and would like to do buildworld > and > buildkernel. > The problem is that the machine is a remote one. > Handbook states that to run "mergemaster" and "make installworld" I > should > boot into single user mode. > That would mean that I can't access the machine remotely anymore am > I > correct? > > Would it be okey to run make installworld when running in multiuser > mode and > being the only person whos logged on and maby shutting down most of > the > network services (leaving my sshd running though) ? > > Lauri Anteploon > HYPERLINK "mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]"[EMAIL PROTECTED] > 5056999 > > HYPERLINK "http://www.bitifarm.ee/"; > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.11.2 - Release Date: > 2.05.2005 > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
