Re: Best practices for remote upgrade?

2006-05-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Chris H." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Quoting Daniel Gerzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Yeah, it's possible (and risky), however you will not get, for example, >> an advantages of UFS2 and so forth, because you can't upgrade from UFS >> to UFS2 without rebuilding FS. > > How can one convert their U

Re: Best practices for remote upgrade?

2006-05-16 Thread Chris H.
Quoting Daniel Gerzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi Scott, Monday, May 8, 2006, 2:29:23 PM, you contributed this to our collective wisdom: Hello, I have some 4.x servers that I would like to upgrade to 5.x, and perhaps 6.x. However, I do not have any local access to these machines. I

Re: Best practices for remote upgrade?

2006-05-10 Thread Alex Hayward
On Tue, 9 May 2006, Scott Harrison wrote: > This sounds nice except that I do not have my disk already > partitioned like this. Can I take a 4.7 machine (for example) and > live repartition it to be like this? It /is/ possible to upgrade from at least some versions of FreeBSD 4 to some ver

Re: Best practices for remote upgrade?

2006-05-09 Thread Scott Harrison
On May 9, 2006, at 12:56 , Hans Lambermont wrote: David Wolfskill wrote: On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 02:29:23PM +0200, Scott Harrison wrote: I have some 4.x servers that I would like to upgrade to 5.x, and perhaps 6.x. However, I do not have any local access to these machines. I can ss

Re: Best practices for remote upgrade?

2006-05-09 Thread Hans Lambermont
David Wolfskill wrote: > On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 02:29:23PM +0200, Scott Harrison wrote: >> I have some 4.x servers that I would like to upgrade to 5.x, and >> perhaps 6.x. However, I do not have any local access to these >> machines. I can ssh into them only. I would like to know whet

Re: Best practices for remote upgrade?

2006-05-08 Thread David Wolfskill
On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 02:29:23PM +0200, Scott Harrison wrote: > Hello, > > I have some 4.x servers that I would like to upgrade to 5.x, and > perhaps 6.x. However, I do not have any local access to these > machines. I can ssh into them only. I would like to know whether it > is po

Re: Best practices for remote upgrade?

2006-05-08 Thread Daniel Gerzo
Hi Scott, Monday, May 8, 2006, 2:29:23 PM, you contributed this to our collective wisdom: > Hello, > I have some 4.x servers that I would like to upgrade to 5.x, and > perhaps 6.x. However, I do not have any local access to these > machines. I can ssh into them only. I would like to

Best practices for remote upgrade?

2006-05-08 Thread Scott Harrison
Hello, I have some 4.x servers that I would like to upgrade to 5.x, and perhaps 6.x. However, I do not have any local access to these machines. I can ssh into them only. I would like to know whether it is possible for me to upgrade the machines with only ssh access, and what one shoul