Rebuilding "world" without physical access

[jcr]

Øystein Holmen wrote:

> I have usually followed the canonical way to update my system, as  
> described in the handbook. But now I need to update a system that I  
> cannot reach physically for a long time. Is there any way to do this?  
> The system runs primarily as a webserver, and it doesn't have many  
> users. Could I just stop apache and follow the canonical way, except  
> I don't go into single user mode?
>
> Sincerely,
> Øystein Holmen_______________________________________________

I do under normal multiuser root:

# cd /usr/obj
# rm -rf *
# cd /usr/src
# /make clean
# make buildworld && make buildkernel KERNCONF=FOO && make installkernel 
KERNCONF=FOO && make installworld && mergemaster

then reboot

prolly not the correct way, but works for me, (never tried across major 
version changes)
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