make installworld (remotely)

Pat Maddox pergesu at gmail.com
Tue May 3 19:50:53 PDT 2005


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, bob at a1poweruser.com <bob at a1poweruser.com> 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-----
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> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Lauri
> Anteploon / ctrl-L
> Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 5:30 PM
> To: freebsd-questions at 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:lauri at bitifarm.ee"lauri at bitifarm.ee
> 5056999
> 
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