quiet interesting that serial port thingy! do you know the name of it btw? I will be interested to install on of them... and start saving some money going to my office :D when i can not use even ssh...
2009/10/18 John Almberg <jalmb...@identry.com>: >>> I've been reading the upgrade chapter in "Absolute FreeBSD", and it seems >>> like the best option is to download the source files for 7.2 and upgrade >>> from sources. >> >> >> I've done it several times via ssh between major and minor versions >> without >> any problems. You should read /usr/src/UPDATING for any additional >> information. > > Updating the source tree was no problem. So far so good. I'm running 'make > buildworld' right now. > > Luckily I have a remote serial port thingy, so I should be able to login to > the box, even if ssh doesn't come up after reboot. > > Pretty interesting, though I'd be a lot more nervous if this box had live > applications running... Which is why it was still on 6.2! > > Hopefully after this I'll feel more comfortable doing major upgrades, > instead of just running freebsd-update. > > -- John > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > -- () ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org | Against proprietary extensions -- () ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org | Against proprietary extensions _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
