update to 4.10 via ssh

Rafael B Albuquerque rafael at totalsecurity.com.br
Fri Jun 18 03:39:23 GMT 2004


Hello,

Although it is not recomended I have already did this lots of time with
success. I think somebody that had problems can tell us something , but I
did that dozens of times and things gone okay.

See ya,
Rafael
>From: "Nicolás de Bari Embríz G. R." <nbari at unixmexico.com>
>
> Hi all, right now I am using freebsd 4.9 but I would like to update to
> 4.10-STABLE but I have a problem, I want to do this on a dedicated server
> the one is in  another country and miles away from me, so I am planing to
> do this over ssh.
>
> what I plan to do is a cvsup to get the latest release then:
>
>  1.  `cd /usr/src'
>  2.  `make buildworld'
>  3.  `make buildkernel KERNCONF=MY_KERNEL'
>  4.  `make installkernel KERNCONF=MY_KERNEL'
>  6.  `mergemaster -p'
>  7.  `make installworld'
>  8.  `mergemaster'
>  9.  `reboot'
>
>
> Also I have Perl installed from ports so I have commented the #NOPERL=
> true on /etc/make.conf
>
> I will appreciate some help, tips or recommendations for doing this so I
> can update my system.



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