Re: FreeBSD "Live Upgrade" best practice?
Dear Colin, Colin Percival wrote on Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 03:22:12PM +: > >Given: -STABLE box with an extra disk. > > > >[snip] > > > >Maybe someone has already done such a thing? > > My depenguinator is useful for this purpose; it creates a > disk image, which you can write to your second drive, which > boots into a memory disk; you can then slice, partition, > create filesystems, and generally do whatever you like with > the system -- without needing anything beyond a network > connection. Care to share an URL? atleo6:~#grep depenguinator /usr/ports/INDEX atleo6:~# However. If I understand you correctly, I need to boot this diskimage and then do a 'regular' install? Anything I could also do, using a CDROM or a boot-floppy? Or is there some other benefit? The purpose of my live-upgrade mission is not to get rid of CD-ROM or floppy requirements, but to minimize downtime. Hmmm, I just have another thought... Possibly there is a way to provide make installkernel/installworld with a different destination directory? Like: make installkernel -DDESTDIR=/mnt make installworld -DDESTDIR=/mnt Would this be another possibility? Best regards, Daniel Lang -- IRCnet: Mr-Spock - ceterum censeo Microsoftinem esse delendam - Daniel Lang * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * +49 89 289 18532 * http://www.leo.org/~dl/ smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
Re: FreeBSD "Live Upgrade" best practice?
At 10:19 11/03/2004, Daniel Lang wrote: I'd like to try some sort of "Live Upgrade". Given: -STABLE box with an extra disk. [snip] Maybe someone has already done such a thing? My depenguinator is useful for this purpose; it creates a disk image, which you can write to your second drive, which boots into a memory disk; you can then slice, partition, create filesystems, and generally do whatever you like with the system -- without needing anything beyond a network connection. Colin Percival ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
FreeBSD "Live Upgrade" best practice?
Hi, I'd like to try some sort of "Live Upgrade". Given: -STABLE box with an extra disk. Intended procedure: - Install 5.2.1-RELEASE (given it works on that box) on the extra disk - Adapt configuration from -STABLE - shutdown - change -STABLE disk with 5.2.1 disk - boot and run 5.2.1 - optionally update to 5-CURRENT Is this a feasable procedure? How would I best install the 5.2.1 on the extra disk. I thought I'd just extract the -release tarballs using the install.sh script? However there is also mtree information, and of course the extra disk is not mounted on / but on /mnt What do I else need to think of? I know that I probably cannot create UFS2 filesystems with the -stable system. But I guess I can run UFS(1) as well until I move each filesystem to UFS2 using the (now spare) old -stable system disk. Maybe someone has already done such a thing? Thanks & best regards, Daniel -- IRCnet: Mr-Spock- Eddie would go! - Daniel Lang * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * +49 89 289 18532 * http://www.leo.org/~dl/ smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
