I have done that many times without hitch but would never recommend it
on a production box even though i have never seen an issue in real world
situations.
Note the mergemaster -p should be done before the installword as it
sometimes add new accounts and things that the installworld needs to
complete.
Artem Kuchin wrote:
Mike Clarke ?????:
On Thursday 29 January 2009, Akenner wrote:
For some reason if you follow along line by line in the book "FreeBSD
Unleashed Second edition" which was written and came with 5.0 on CD,
it doesn't work at all for some reason. I think there must have been
a few changes in the way things are done between these versions but I
couldn't get those instructions to work at all. I'm sure it works
great on 5.0 but I kind of fell for 7.1 like a school kid lol.
I have never had a single problem updating system remotely via
internet like this:
doing a sup file like this:
*default host=cvsup4.FReeBSD.org
*default base=/usr
*default prefix=/usr
*default release=cvs tag=RELENG_7
*default delete use-rel-suffix
*default compress
src-all
doc-all tag=.
ports-all tag=.
Then
csup supfile
Then
cd /usr/local/src
make buildworld >& bw
check the end of bw
make buildkernel KERNCONF=MYKERN >&bk
check what's in bk
i redirect output to save the bandwidth and traffic
stop as many thing as i can stop
make installkernel KERNCONF=MYKERN
make installworld >&iw
check what's in iw
mergemaster -p
mergemaster
disable everything in /local/etc/rc.d and as many as possible in rc.conf
shutdown -r now
and then it's up and it's a new version!
as i said - it never failed!
--
Artem
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